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@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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