If you run WikiTrust on a dump, and you compute the "statistics", this gives
you, for each revision, a score between -1 and +1, where:
- -1 = perfectly reverted
- 0 = heavily modified
- +1 = perfectly preserved
It also tells you how big the change was. So, if you wanted to run this
analysis on a dump, it would be failry trivial and fast (say, half a day for
the Italian wikipedia? One day for the German one?). We would be happy to
provide the details.
Of course, this would just give you a measure of how much of each
contribution is kept. It would not tell you much about the intellectual
contribution -- your adding a date for an event, will be judges as much as a
bot adding a new category to the revision (both 1-word changes).
But at least, it could be a quick start? And more could be built on that?
Luca
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Said Hamideh
<said.hamideh(a)mindbounce.com>wrote;wrote:
I skipped over the part where you started by talking
about bots. Sorry I
was just thinking about the beautiful intellectual productivity that arises
from revert wars between two human beings, at least for me.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Joseph Reagle <reagle(a)mit.edu> wrote:
On Friday 06 November 2009, Said Hamideh wrote:
Joseph, as someone who doesn't follow every
discussion in this thread, I
am
curious as to how you are defining
"productive"?
Yes, it requires some synthetic variable, of which there are a few in the
quant literature. (For example, Priedhorsky et al. defined a damaged article
view (DAV).) However, it could be something as simple as what Spinellis and
Louridas (2008) imply: a reversion is evidence of an unproductive
contribution (ignoring revert wars for the moment), and so what percentage
of all edits to WP are reverts? Has this changed over time.
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