On 10/1/06, Stephen Streater sbstreater@mac.com wrote:
This sounds sensible to me.
We would benefit from a more sophisticated measure of likely article quality, related to the number of independent editors and frequency of edits. If we get the formula right, it will apply to all articles. Vanity is only one possible cause of NPOV.
Unfortunatly most authors have very few distinct editors. .. And it's hard to differentiate editors who simply fixed a typographical mistake and editors who actually read the content (it's not to hard to find examples of people copyediting fairly obvious vandalism in Wikipedia. :( )...
As a result coming up with good metrics are hard, and coming up with ones which couldn't easily be gamed .. maybe almost impossible.