Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Vandalism studies/Study2

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to gather a random sampling of edits in the month of May 2007 to Wikipedia in order to investigate the contributions, vandalism, and revert edits by different types of editors

Participants

• Remember 12:38, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
• Jonathan Stokes 16:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
• JoeSmack ^Talk 02:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• Xiner Xiner (talk, email) 02:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
• --Martschink 04:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• Jayron32|talk|contribs 17:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
• shoy 16:28, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
• Alex Jackl 00:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• - hmwithtalk 00:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
• Flubeca 23:50, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
• --Auto^{(talk / contribs)} (programmer)
• Venado 20:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Materials

1. Spreadsheet and data analysis program, such as Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org's Calc or similar equivalent

Procedure

1. Edit numbers between the dates of May 1, 2007 (after the last edit in April, edit number 127285389) and May 31, 2007 (before the first edit in June edit number 134959730) will be generated by a random number generator. The total amount of edits to draw from is 7,674,341 (134959730-127285389=7,674,341).
2. Editors will then review these specific edits and record the following information in the data table below

Table

User Auto will use his bot to pull the data for 1000 edits and then users will then come in and help fill out the table for the information the bot cannot fill out.

First 100