On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I would put money on a significant majority of reverts being >> reverts of vandalism rather than BRD reverts, it may not be an >> overwhelming majority, though. > > > I don't know about that, though I won't take the other end of the bet. > Have you done much editing while not logged in? If so, I think you have to > admit that it's quite common to find yourself reverted for things which are > not properly classified as vandalism. >
Just going through recent changes looking for "rv" (which is not the only thing detected by Robert's software, and is probably the most likely to be actual vandalism)... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smallpox&curid=16829895&diff=310413006&oldid=310405829 (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=View_Askewniverse&curid=2163851&diff=310412615&oldid=310412247 (blanking vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbecue&curid=37135&diff=310412401&oldid=310410035 (spelling dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sino-American_relations&curid=277880&diff=310412381&oldid=310329859 (revert of POV edits, I guess that counts as "vandalism" by Robert's definition) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Secession&curid=144732&diff=310412005&oldid=310406662 (I have no idea, I guess this one qualifies) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Underdog_Project&curid=1436277&diff=310412002&oldid=308833810 (test edit, qualifies) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Visual_communication&curid=669120&diff=310411952&oldid=310411398 (I'm going to call this a content dispute though you may disagree) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technical_communication&curid=1219401&diff=310411937&oldid=310410621 (ditto) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caroline_Aherne&curid=514223&diff=310411860&oldid=310328710 (removal of POV, qualifies) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mario_Kart_Wii&curid=12205924&diff=310411680&oldid=310401913 (vandalism, I think) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hephaestus&curid=14388&diff=310411384&oldid=310396007 (vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_pop_punk_bands&curid=4770362&diff=310410857&oldid=310410740 (looks like a content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Korn's_ninth_studio_album&curid=21855821&diff=310410677&oldid=310381982 (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinetic_energy&curid=17327&diff=310410573&oldid=310391734 (vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_best-selling_Wii_video_games&curid=21469202&diff=310410431&oldid=310395902 (seems to be reversion of a legitimate edit) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleological_argument&curid=30731&diff=310410174&oldid=310399980 (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick_Swardson&curid=3630190&diff=310410089&oldid=310410013 (vandalism) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jose_Canseco&curid=175552&diff=310409931&oldid=310408069 (vandalism, I guess) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ola_Moum&curid=8083232&diff=310409846&oldid=310396138 (content dispute) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kareli,_Georgia&curid=18661674&diff=310409393&oldid=310348062 (vandalism, I think) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Justice&curid=2662543&diff=310412751&oldid=310411603 (I guess it's technically a BLP violation, so qualifies) 13/21=62% actual vandalism, though I'm sure 80 people will now proceed to dispute my categorizations. Robert, let's get a random sample of the actual reverts your program found... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
