An elegant formula for determining the amount of Vitriol that will follow upon any admin action:
Where:
V is amount of Vitriol
E is the Enemies of the Admin in Question Index
G is the Generated Controversy Index, or if this formula is being used in a forward looking context, the Expected Generated Controversy Index
U is the Unilateral Index (roughly defined as the degree to which the action is perceived as unilateral)
O is the Obviousness of the action in question.
R is the Reversibility of the action (usually defined as 1 for page protection, 8 for semi-protection, 5 for deletion, and a sliding scale from 1 to 20 for blocks, depending on the length of the block).
Note: An alternative formula replaces ACNS with the ST or Seasoned Troll factor.
G: Generated Controversy Index
Where:
O represents the Obviousness of the action (see below)
N represents the Number of users affected.
Au represents the number of previous Unsuccessful Attempts.
As represents the number of previous Successful Attempts.
Du represents the average length of Discussions (if any) generated by unsuccessful attempts in dozens of edits.
T represents Time since the last unsuccessful attempt (if any), in months.
W represents the Awareness factor of the user regarding the possible controversiality of the issue, on a scale of 0 to 5. Unawareness is expressed in fractions. Average awareness is 1.
R is the number of reverts over the actions. Most everyday actions have . Trouble starts when .
U: Unilateral Index
U=1 for a well-discussed multilateral action. Totally unilateral actions have U=500.
Where:
N represents the number of Users participating in the discussions.
F represents the number of Forums where input was requested.
D1 represents the length of Discussion taken before implementing the action.
D2 represents the length of Discussion generated by previous implementations.
As represents the number of previous Successful Attempts.
O: Obviousness
O, the obviousness of the action in question.
Where:
max(t,v,w,v*t,w*t) is the maximal value of t, v, w, v*t or w*t.
t is the apparent trolling, v is the apparent vandalism, w is the current level of revert warring, and v*t and w*t are the multiple of apparent trolling and either v or w. v, w and t default to 1, and are positive real numbers; a larger value equates to a more blatant example of vandalism, edit warring, or trolling.
V is the visibility of the page in question; see below.
E is the extent (if page related) or length (if a block) of the action in question, in hours.
V: Visibility
V, Visibility calculates roughly as:
Where:
Lr represents the number of Relevant Internal Links to the page (date pages can be considered to have only very few relevant links).
Le represents the number of External Links to the page.
may be replaced by where M is the page's average position on "Most popular/visited pages" over the last month.
Pt represents the Number of Pages in Wikipedia at Time t of occurrence.
D represents the Depth of the page (in clicks) from the Main Page.
Fva represents a Vandalism Attraction Factor, that is, the normal attractiveness of this page to vandals when unprotected. Indefinitely protecting Penis is unlikely to immediately create much uproar, no matter the circumstances.