On 08/25/2014 07:49 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
Any kind of filtering that looks at something more sophisticated would likely require have more persistent history about an editor, and thus might not work for unregistered users easily. Right now, for example, we already know that SuggestBot has a lot of success by combing through a user's entire edit history.
If we're okay with just using the IP's contribution history, we have the same data. The issue is just if we're okay presenting it to the IP. We present the actual page (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.175.130.30), even though it may be more than one person. The question is whether it's alright to present an aggregate of that.
We should remember some IPs are static and persistent, though probably a minority.
Testing on Wikipedia is our first focus. From a practical standpoint,
the size
of large Wikipedias let's us run a comparatively short test to tell us statistically significant results. If it ends up being a success, then we should talk about whether the recommendations will work for non-encyclopedic projects as well. It would definitely be cool to have recommendations for editor communities like Wikidata, Wikivoyage, and Wiktionary too.
I do think this is a good potential candidate for other projects, though, particularly Wikivoyage (since it has a similar content model and no special archiving behavior that I know of).
Matt Flaschen