[WikiEN-l] I propose a formula based on reverts

Tue Feb 3 14:51:08 UTC 2004

So you give assholes a way to screw up your status on Wikpedia, shame on
you!

Fred

> From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:18:08 -0500
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] I propose a formula based on reverts
> 
> How about a simple formula, based on what percentage of a user's edits
> are reverted by other users? (We might tweak this by discounting reverts
> from a certain class of user.)
> 
> For example, if new user Blatheration is reverted 30% of the time, he
> keeps newbie status. But if new user Jim Dandy has no reverts (except
> from newbies), promote him to preferred status.
> 
> My only worry is that some highly motivated user will figure out a way
> to hack this system, in order to subvert or destroy it. So at first
> anyway we should not make it automatic but we could use the statistics
> when considering the granting of sysop rights.
> 
> But the good thing is that tracking each user's "revert count" would
> enable us to identify edit wars in progress or to identify Edit
> Warriors. (Yes, of course we'd have to find a way to account for
> reversions of 'simple vandalism' so this wouldn't "count against"
> someone.)
> 
> Uncle Ed
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