Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2007 20:31:18 schrieb John Erling Blad:
I think you misunderstand, its not about not flagging small changes. Its about to high learning rate on small changes. When it is to high you can simply run a spell checking bot for a few days to become an "expert". You don't want this.
This has already been noted by Luca himself: The current algorithms has two weaknesses (better say optimisation potential as it is already quite good at this unfinished stage): * Sock puppets pushing "trust" * Splitting of contributions into small edits
See http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikiquality-l/2007-December/000405.html for details (also about possible fixes).
Furthermore as noted by Aaron and by me a combination of automated (trust color code) and hand crafted (stable versions) system maybe will be able to overcome the weaknesses of both concepts, see: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikiquality-l/2007-December/000393.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikiquality-l/2007-December/000394.html
Arnomane