With this idea, not only can Wikipedia provide two views for every article
("Latest" and "Stable"), but we can even select certain Wikipedia articles
and put their Stable versions into a DVD edition or printed edition for
sale.On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> 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. > > Of course there can be additional factors to refine this, such as also > considering each revision's author's reputation (Wikipedia has a reputation > system for Wikipedians), but I still feel the above idea is the simplest > and most elegant, just like the original PageRank idea is for Google. > > Best Regards, > Ziyuan Yao > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
