User:Fuzheado/metrics

The following results were generated based on a database snapshot from 20 September 2003:

NPOV Dispute Metrics
Originally posted to Village Pump

After a week of observing serious concerns on Village Pump -- "Wikipedia needs an editor", "We've lost another two", "protecting Wikipedia", NPOV disputes, epidemic personal attacks, and the like -- I wanted to find out how well perception stood up to the statistics. What I found was a real surprise. Searching through all the articles for neutral point of view (NPOV_dispute) warnings, care to guess how many articles came back? With 160,000+ articles in the English edition, I was thinking hundreds if not thousands were in dispute, but the actual number was 89. (September 20, 2003 database dump, with recent dumps about the same). That's 0.06% of pages being NPOV disputed. Of those 89 articles, 30 are related to Israel-Palestine or Jewish-Muslim-Christian issues.

Granted, not all hotly debated articles have an "NPOV dispute" notice at the top, but with my guess being an order of magnitude (or two) WAY OFF is telling. Even if we are generous and say there are 10 times as many articles that are "hot button" and are not labeled "NPOV dispute" that's still only 0.6% of articles. A very small number of articles are creating headaches and bad blood. It seems to not be an 80-20 rule but a 99-1 rule. Just something to keep in perspective as we propose massive policy changes that may drastically change the face of Wikipedia. Fuzheado 10:09, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Pages listed below were normal articles that contained a link to the "Wikipedia:NPOV dispute" page. There were 89 articles retrieved, with over one third (30) related to Israel-Palestine or Jewish-Muslim-Christian issues (denoted with a * below).

SQL command: cur_namespace=0 AND cur_is_redirect=0 AND cur_text LIKE '%[[Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute%'

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