Research talk:Anonymous phenomena

From Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

[...] there are plenty of IPs who choose not to create an account for a multitude of fair reasons [...] -- 101.176.89.125 (talk) 17:14, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

--Halfak (WMF) (talk) 17:26, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Looking at anonymous edits in User: namespace on English Wikipedia

I've gathered a random sample of recent edits within the "User" namespace on English Wikipedia that were not to sub-pages and whose IP address did not associate with any logged in changes (using the `checkuser` system). This is a random sub-sample of the roughly 60% of anon user-space edits that didn't match a registered user.

Good edits (45)

• en:Special:Diff/730294315 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732397500 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732848625 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730478066 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732094750 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731739952 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730418444 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730477872 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730505961 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732933235 -- good: userpage edit, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732104437 -- good: counter-vandalism, removing nonsense
• en:Special:Diff/731078188 -- good: counter-vandalism
• en:Special:Diff/732883560 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732232320 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731590190 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732414508 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730235832 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731529290 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731366035 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732757869 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731542131 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731529572 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731529636 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/729862865 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/729723089 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732759173 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731593600 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730272705 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732412293 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731912860 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730735067 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/729935192 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730291632 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730664033 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732587505 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731491435 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732572656 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730293287 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730430674 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732032696 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730213240 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/731592591 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/729935307 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/732756966 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/729861082 -- good: drafting, probably logged out
• en:Special:Diff/730367132 -- good: drafting, probably logged out

Good faith damage (6)

• en:Special:Diff/732170921 -- good faith: Misunderstanding of userspace
• en:Special:Diff/731483865 -- good faith: probable logged-out edit, but writing autobiographical content
• en:Special:Diff/730200385 -- good faith: adding Template:Blocked user template, but reverted, asked to let an admin make a judgment call
• en:Special:Diff/732157193 -- good faith: deletes "do not delete" line on sandbox page
• en:Special:Diff/730637857 -- good faith: deletes "do not delete" line on sandbox page
• en:Special:Diff/730312605 -- good faith: deletes "do not delete" line on sandbox page

Vandalism (54)

• en:Special:Diff/731659593 -- vandal: IP sock removes {{sock}} from own blocked userpage
• en:Special:Diff/729712494 -- vandal: IP adding editorial comments
• en:Special:Diff/730648857 -- vandal: gibberish
• en:Special:Diff/729979418 -- vandal: "bad attitude"
• en:Special:Diff/731733023 -- vandal: page deleted as blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a webhost-- edited by several IPs (may all be same user)
• en:Special:Diff/731729862 -- vandal: page deleted as blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a webhost-- edited by several IPs (may all be same user)
• en:Special:Diff/730772041 -- vandal: "I am an idiot"
• en:Special:Diff/731919348 -- vandal: changes name to "Arabian Gulf"
• en:Special:Diff/733029353 -- vandal: removing content
• en:Special:Diff/730195348 -- vandal: rm sock template
• en:Special:Diff/731096156 -- vandal: "lying beech"
• en:Special:Diff/730402470 -- vandal: "I love Taylor Swift"
• en:Special:Diff/730434079 -- vandal: revdeleted (Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material)
• en:Special:Diff/731325091 -- vandal: Changed {{sock}} template to proven
• en:Special:Diff/732092948 -- vandal: "I am a web freak who loves to play tricks"
• en:Special:Diff/730438617 -- vandal: Middle finger emoji
• en:Special:Diff/731376398 -- vandal: rm {{sock}} template
• en:Special:Diff/732146206 -- vandal: Looks like people chatting on userpages
• en:Special:Diff/730518026 -- vandal: threats, writes out "faggot" backwards
• en:Special:Diff/731908025 -- vandal: mispellings, general disruption
• en:Special:Diff/730435982 -- vandal: revdeleted (Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material)
• en:Special:Diff/730441861 -- vandal: gibberish
• en:Special:Diff/730555851 -- vandal: "I peed my pants"
• en:Special:Diff/730609500 -- vandal: "Deez nuts"
• en:Special:Diff/730971080 -- vandal
• en:Special:Diff/732422250 -- vandal: Adds {{sock}} template and gets reverted
• en:Special:Diff/730576677 -- vandal: adds {{sock}} template and gets reverted
• en:Special:Diff/730628620 -- vandal: adds link to violent video
• en:Special:Diff/730472081 -- vandal: removes Template:Sock and gets reverted
• en:Special:Diff/732175991 -- vandal: Deletes the "please leave this alone" comment from User:Sandbox
• en:Special:Diff/731420870 -- vandal: "blah blah blah"
• en:Special:Diff/731509464 -- vandal
• en:Special:Diff/730447039 -- vandal: "I peed my pants"
• en:Special:Diff/731485488 -- vandal: Changed bot status
• en:Special:Diff/730627091 -- vandal: adds Template:Sock and gets reverted. Page is protected
• en:Special:Diff/730213377 -- vandal: personal
• en:Special:Diff/732508244 -- vandal: adds random "?"
• en:Special:Diff/730633358 -- vandal: page blanking
• en:Special:Diff/731484972 -- vandal: marks bots as not running
• en:Special:Diff/731097188 -- vandal: "Anonymous will be here"
• en:Special:Diff/730266238 -- vandal: removes {{sock}} template
• en:Special:Diff/732999039 -- vandal: ???
• en:Special:Diff/730503383 -- vandal: removes {{sock}} template and gets reverted
• en:Special:Diff/732410871 -- vandal: disruption involving Template:Sock template on User:Jimbo Wales
• en:Special:Diff/732423339 -- vandal: Adds a {{sock}} template and gets reverted
• en:Special:Diff/730471930 -- vandal: Removes {{sock}} template
• en:Special:Diff/732410844 -- vandal: Adds a {{sock}} template and gets reverted
• en:Special:Diff/732423438 -- vandal: Adds a {{sock}} template and gets reverted

--EpochFail (talk) 20:38, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

I just finished working on this with User:I JethroBT (WMF) and edited the above to include our notes. --EpochFail (talk) 22:53, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Does this also include deleted edits? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:46, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

They seem to be included, as I see one; «deletes "do not delete" line on sandbox page» is not damage but successful testing; a bot cleans up there anyway. Nemo 10:06, 25 August 2016 (UTC)