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

Tue Dec 20 14:29:04 UTC 2011

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/12/20 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> > On 20 December 2011 01:16, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Under your metric, in this scenario, the edits of a sysop and an
> >> experienced user, or later the WikiProject editors, would not be
> >> chosen as the high-quality stable version.
> >
> >
> > Yao did in fact mention that other factors would need consideration.
> >
> > And being able to pick a hole doesn't make the algorithm useless -
> > Google certainly went past simple page rank very early on.
> >
> > The question is if Yao's algorithm has markedly better results than
> > just picking the latest. This would warrant investigation, at the
> > least.
>
> It is just a 2-3 hours work to select random 100-200 articles - check
> their history and evaluate if this idea really gona work... IMHO
> rather not at all. I just checked 10 random articles in English
> Wikipedia and found that the current versions are usually better than
>

It all depends on the definition of "better". When it comes to "least
vandalized", I think my idea can work; when it comes to "most up-to-date
and feature-rich", I think the latest revision will work. It's exactly who
some people like CentOS for stability and error-free-ness while other
people like Fedora for having the latest cool features. I said we can have
both, by showing two tabs "Latest" and "Most stable" that let the reader
choose which to view.

the most stable ones. It is quite common that the last stable version
> of article is covered by a set of bot-made edits. So at least the
> bot-made edits should not to be taken into consideration when choosing
> the "most stable" version.
>
> --
> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
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