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I wonder what the chances are of using one of these and coming across a wiki page that has been defaced and / or is somehow incorrect. With the online version y
by icey 17y ago
I wonder what the chances are of using one of these and coming across a wiki page that has been defaced and / or is somehow incorrect. With the online version you have the benefit of time tempering validity of most articles. With something like this, aren't you at the mercy of whenever the snapshot was taken?
- furyg3 17y agoand / or is somehow incorrect The chances are 100%.
- icey 17y agoYeah, I did some back of the envelope calculations on this yesterday - approximately 4 million edits to Wikipedia a month, 4% of which end up being vandalism of some sort. That ends up being approximately 160,000 instances of vandalism a month if you don't mind my hand-wavey oversimplification. The median time to revert a vandalized article is 14 minutes. I guess the question is "how many vandalized articles are in an average snapshot?" instead of "are there any vandalized articles?". Sources: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseEdits.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseEdits.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vandalism_studies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vandalism...