It's worth pointing out in our research at PARC, we had also discussed the possibility of using containment based measure as described in: On the resemblance and containment of documents, AZ Broder

In the end, we realized that the real issue is that there is no universal agreement on what is a 'revert'.

--Ed

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM, wiki-research-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:

There have been a few publication on the subject:

1. "Us vs. them: Understanding social dynamics in Wikipedia with revert

graph visualizations", B Suh, EH Chi, BA Pendleton. 2. "He says, she says: Conflict and coordination in Wikipedia.", A Kittur, B Suh, BA Pendleton.