Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
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- Goals
- To conduct research related to vandalism on wikipedia.
- Scope
- The project covers all vandalism on wikipedia. (Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. - Wikipedia:Vandalism)
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[edit] Members
- Remember (talk • contribs • count) -interested in everything about vandalism
- JoeSmack (talk • contribs) - interest in anti-vandalism and have a specialization in linkspam reverting
- John Broughton (talk • contribs) - believe that Wikipedia policies and practices should be based at least partly on hard data, not just people's opinions
- AJackl (talk • contribs) - interested in the balance between subjectivity and objectivity and fact, and communities enforcing good faith edits in Wikipedia.
- res2216firestar (talk • contribs) - Believes that intentional vandalism should be strictly punished, and has a talent in telling intentional vandalism from good faith or test edits.
- wompa99 (talk • contribs • count)
- JackSparrow Ninja (talk • contribs • count) - interest in anti-vandalism, and has a talent in telling intentional vandalism from good faith or test edits.
- Jonathan Stokes (talk • contribs) - interested in hard data on the contributions of anonymous users
- Jayron32 (talk • contribs) - Interested in fighting vandalism, but also interested in maintaining the Good Faith that most anons are still interested in improving Wikipedia.
- Deletion Quality (talk • contribs)- Interested in anti-vandalism and tracking down vandals
- Flubeca (talk • contribs) - More we know about vandals, the more we can stop them.
[edit] Open tasks
- Come up with a defensible definition of "vandalism", including a list of types. (See /Types of vandalism and Wikipedia:Vandalism#Types of vandalism.)
- Discuss what research needs to be conducted and what would be good metrics to gather.
- Create a central place that lists all empirical studies related to vandalism on wikipedia.
- Add thoughts/contribute to any of the studies that are completed or currently running. (Study 1, Study 2, Obama article study).
- Wikipedia:Error management
[edit] Current studies
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies/Obama article study, (talk page)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies/Study1, (talk page)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies/Study2, (talk page)
[edit] Previous studies
- IBM study of Wikipedia, April 2004 (pdf)
- Wikipedia talk:Don't protect Main Page featured articles/December Main Page FA analysis
- Study by Jayron32 (warning: results found in a rather long Village Pump dif...)
- Study by Opabinia regalis
- Study of vandalism on individual's user page
- 2006 study by Buriol et. al. - figure 5 shows "rv" and "revert" edits have steadily increased over time; these were 6% of all edits as of January 2006
[edit] What we know about wikipedia vandalism so far
According to our first study, vandalism edits represents approximately 5% of edits on a random article and 97% of that vandalism is done by anonymous editors. Obvious vandalism is the vast majority of vandalism used. Rougly 25% of vandalism reverting is done by anonymous editors and roughly 75% is done by wikipedians with user accounts. The mean average time vandalism reverting is 758.35 minutes (12.63 hours) and the median time vandalism reverting is 14 minutes.
