On 04/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Abstract: Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of times the edited version is viewed.
Interesting points.
Seems to me, off hand, that this suggests:
- wikipedia needs to keep track of article views (possibly over different time periods) if we aren't already (I don't remember seeing it)
- It seems to me this concept suggests that watchlists should be sorted, not by date, but by article view rate so that the most viewed articles are first.
- we also should develop an index that determines which articles are both least watched and most viewed and highlight any edits that occur to these which are not being checked.