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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. |
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| ==Topline findings== | | ==Topline findings== |
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| == External links == | | == External links == |
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− | * [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''] |
| + | * [http://akahele.org/2009/06/wikipedia-goes-to-washington/ Wikipedia Goes to Washington] at ''Akahele.org'' |
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| == Notes == | | == Notes == |
| {{reflist}} | | {{reflist}} |