On 10/1/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater(a)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.