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Throughout mid-2008, a number of [[Wikipedia Review]] members joined [[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Gregory Kohs]] in a project to methodically enumerate one calendar quarter’s worth (4Q 2007) of edit data underlying the 100 Wikipedia articles about the (then) current [[Directory:United States|United States]] Senators.  [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psAWteTSyixEB98YcV-5VEw What they found] was alarming at times. While most vandalized edits were brief in duration and clearly juvenile in content, a substantial portion of edits were plainly intended to be hurtful and defamatory against the Senators — and they lasted for not just minutes, but hours, days, even weeks at a time.

Throughout mid-2008, a number of people interested in analysis of Wikipedia joined [[Directory:Gregory J. Kohs|Gregory Kohs]] in a project to methodically enumerate one calendar quarter’s worth (4Q 2007) of edit data underlying the 100 Wikipedia articles about the (then) current [[Directory:United States|United States]] Senators.  [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nsxv8JhN55Szk0pyWT2Tda-0yvbT_hSfGGu4v9xy0nQ/edit?usp=sharing What they found] was alarming at times. While most vandalized edits were brief in duration and clearly juvenile in content, a substantial portion of edits were plainly intended to be hurtful and defamatory against the Senators — and they lasted for not just minutes, but hours, days, even weeks at a time.

==Topline findings==

==Topline findings==

More than 700 instances of vandalism were found and recorded into a database.  All of the data is available for analysis in a '''[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psAWteTSyixEB98YcV-5VEw Google spreadsheet]''' that is open to the public.

More than 700 instances of vandalism were found and recorded into a database.  All of the data is available for analysis in a '''[http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psAWteTSyixEB98YcV-5VEw Google spreadsheet]''' that is open to the public.

== External links ==

== External links ==

* [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=psAWteTSyixEB98YcV-5VEw Spreadsheet database]

* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nsxv8JhN55Szk0pyWT2Tda-0yvbT_hSfGGu4v9xy0nQ/edit?usp=sharing Spreadsheet database]

* [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=20565&hl=senators Discussion on ''Wikipedia Review'']

* [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=20565&hl=senators Discussion on ''Wikipedia Review'']

* [http://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_40#Wikipedia_vandalism_to_U.S._Senators Article within ''Chance News'']

* [http://chance.dartmouth.edu/chancewiki/index.php/Chance_News_40#Wikipedia_vandalism_to_U.S._Senators Article within ''Chance News'']

== Notes ==

== Notes ==

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