User:Fuzheado/metrics
The following results were generated based on a database snapshot from 20 September 2003:
NPOV Dispute Metrics
Originally posted to Wikipedia: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 (Wikipedia: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%'
Aegean_Macedonia
* Al-Aqsa_Intifada
Anti-French_sentiment_in_the_United_States
Anti-globalization_movement
* Arab-Israeli_conflict
* Arabs_and_anti-Semitism
Arduin
Argument_from_Ignorance
Aryan_invasion_theory
Assured_destruction
Authoritarianism
Biodefense
Biosafety_protocol
Biosecurity_protocol
Chinese_Canadian
Continuation_War
Corentin_Louis_Kervran
Croatian_language
* Deir_Yassin_massacre
* Dhimmi
Easter_Bradford
Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
Foreign_relations_of_France
French_Resistance
Gaian
Genetic_engineering
Gladys_Rodriguez
Global_warming_skepticism
Happy_Birthday
Hector_Camacho
* Hezbollah
* History_of_Israel
History_of_Tibet
History_of_United_States_Imperialism
* Hudna
* Immanuel_Velikovsky
Individualism
Irian_Jaya
* Islam_and_anti-Semitism
* Islamism
* Israeli-Palestinian_conflict
* Israeli-Palestinian_conflict_timeline
* Israeli_attack_on_USS_Liberty
* Israeli_settlement
* Israeli_terrorism
* Israelis_and_anti-Palestinian_racism
Jean-Marie_Le_Pen
* Jenin
José_Bové
Khalistan
Kirtland_Safety_Society
Kosovo_War
Krakow
Libertarian_survivalist
* List_of_massacres_committed_during_the_1948_Arab-Israeli_war
List_of_notable_eccentrics
List_of_speculative_or_fringe_theories
Literacy
Marriage
Massacre_in_Racak
Media_in_Poland
Mediation
Medical_analysis_of_circumcision
* Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson
Moral_core
Neutrosophy
Open_Directory_Project
Organic_farming
* PLO_and_Hamas
* Palestine
* Palestinian
* Palestinian_Authority
* Palestinian_views_of_the_peace_process
Palladium_operating_system
Political_correctness
Property_damage
* Proposals_for_a_Palestinian_state
Rogue_state
* Ruhollah_Khomeini
Seabees
Social_issues_in_the_United_States
Spanish_Inquisition
* Terrorism_against_Arabs
Thealogy
Timeline_of_Slovene_history
Tintin_in_America
* Tsherim_Soobzokov
Ustase
* Zionism_and_racism