--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Platonides platonides@gmail.com wrote:
From: Platonides platonides@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] List of all authors via API To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:19 PM Brion Vibber wrote:
Guess Who? wrote:
it could be tweaked to return only those contributors who've made over X contributions.
of course, I've only
worked on small databases, so I have no idea what
the overhead on
this would be...
Making a lot of edits to the page doesn't
necessarily mean you've
contributed a lot of text to it. It might mean
you've vandalized it a
lot (always reverted) or that you've reverted a
lot of vandalism.
- -- brion
Or simply that you don't know how to use the preview button.
lol - true, but it's the quick and dirty metric. if you want something more sophisticated you could play with weighted means on the positive character counts (or maybe weighted geometric means - weighted arithmetics might be easier to do in the SQL, though), which would up-play people who make moderate, consistent additions. but really, anything you do is going to have have false positives and false negatives, and would need to be vetted for obvious mistakes.