On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
Ok, how do you quantify that? You gave a numerical value for the slog rate, what is the formula for calculating it? And what's the slog rank?
I'm using "rank" here to refer to a level of deterioration within an article, derived from a rating of particular diffs. What the scale is, what the terms are, and what the method for combining diff rankings is, is entirely fluid. I'm using "rate" here to refer to the degree to which deterioration overtakes improvement within a particular timeframe. Its not quite as useful, and probably can't be combined into some general sitewide evaluation.
Certain articles get hit worse than others, because nobody notices them. So article/concept importance factors into it, make slog on pokemon articles less important than slog on science articles for example. Still, each of us has seen slog in science articles, and can come up with several articles, sections, statements which wev'e noted to ourselves to get around to doing something about. And that too is also "slog;" cause I just don't have any new terminology for it; the degree to which editors notice problems that need fixing, but don't fix them or even mention them, for one reason or another; lack of time, energy, out of scope of interest, or difficulty.
-SV