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

[Yao Ziyuan]

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