[Foundation-l] "RevisionRank": automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

Tue Dec 20 10:51:06 UTC 2011

On 12/19/2011 11:38 PM, Yao Ziyuan wrote:
> Hi Wikipedians,
> 
> I seem to have found a way to automatically judge which revision of a
> Wikipedia article has the best quality.
> 
> It's very simple: look at that article's edit history and find out, within
> a specified time range (e.g. the past 6 months), which revision remained
> unchallenged for the longest time until the next revision occurred.

Hey Ziyuan,

that's great! Have you made a statistical analysis whether the average
revision that remained unchallanged by a long time is better than the
average other revisions?
It would seem to me (as it seems to Tom), that often that's a false
presumption, though that's probably based on guesses and anecdotal
experience.

Regards,
Tobias

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