On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Brian<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote:
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Is it not more
likely that most long-term editors who have been active
for years have had most of their text mercilessly edited into oblivion
and have very low average "trust" levels? And more recent editors may
have higher trust levels?
With the disclaimer that I haven't read the paper since the 2006 Wikimania,
no, the algorithm is smarter than that. Simply having your edits overwritten
at some point in the future is not going to detract from the period of time
that your edit lasted. Additionally, if some but not all of your words
persist through rewrites that would contribute to your reputation.
If you merely revert vandalism that removes a persistent piece of
text, doesn't that unfairly contribute to your reputation as the text
continues to persist and the algorithm thinks that anyone who added it
was doing so independently?
Carcharoth