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comment by AnSionnachRua
AnSionnachRua  ·  4125 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 100 Most Controversial Wikipedia Articles (English)

"List_of_Barney_&_Friends_episodes_and_videos" is another odd one.

I'd never heard of Transnistria before this, which makes me surprised that it's one of the most controversial articles...





geneusutwerk  ·  4125 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is something wrong. Checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barney_&_Friends_ep... shows almost no edits. According to their method, found in this paper http://journal.webscience.org/523/1/58_paper.pdf they define controversial using a metric around mutual reverts by pairs of editors (each one reverting the others work).

user-inactivated  ·  4125 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. Now I might actually have to read some of their studies.

user-inactivated  ·  4125 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right. Barney I can understand being a vaguely controversial character. But ... a list? Surely there's no dissent over what order the episodes came in...