On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: >> First shouldn't we guess as to what percentage of the links were >> actually good in the first place? > > I must say, I didn't expect to see someone rationalizing the results > even *before* they happened.
No need to get personal, I wasn't rationalizing anything. > But no, you don't need to guess: you edit Wikipedia I do? > If you don't, you can go click on Special:Random 10 times and ask > yourself, 'would I delete the last link in the External links > section?' If you think 2 links are rotten, then perhaps you should be > predicting that - since everything is well, and any result is > acceptable, and the status quo is perfect - only 80% of the edits will > be reverted. I certainly wouldn't try to make a prediction about the percentage of links which are bad based on a biased sample where each link was the last one in the External links section. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
