Wiki Research Junkies,

I am investigating the comparative quality of articles about  Cote d'Ivoire and Uganda versus other countries. I wanted to answer the question of what makes high-quality articles? Can anyone point me to any existing research on heuristics of Article Quality? That is, determining an articles quality by the wikitext properties, without human rating? I would also consider using data from the Article Feedback Tools, if there were dumps available for each Article in English, French, and Swahili Wikipedias.  This is all the raw data I can seem to find  http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft5/dumps/

The heuristic technique that I currently using is training a naive Bayesian filter based on:

• Per Section.

  • Text length in each section

  • Infoboxes in each section.

    • Filled parameters in each infobox

  • Images in each section

• Good Article, Featured Article?

• Then Normalize on Page Views per on population / speakers of native language

Can you also think of any other dimensions or heuristics to programatically rate?

Best,