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

[David Gerard]

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.


- d.