Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia
Hugh Pickens writes “Researchers at Dartmouth University have recently discovered that infrequent anonymous contributors, so called “Good Samaritans,” are as reliable as registered users who update constantly and have a reputation to maintain. A graph from page 31 of the group’s original paper (pdf file) shows that the quality of contributions of anonymous users goes down as the number of edits increases while quality goes up with the number of edits for registered users.”
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