All,
I was wondering if anybody had come up with a mod for mediawiki that
shows the volatility of a wiki page graphically - by some metric,
either by number of lines per week edited vs total length, number of
contributing editors, or some other such measure.
I guess what I'd like to see when I go to a wiki page is some idea of
stability - that I could look in the upper right hand corner and see
how many authors there were, how many reverts there were, or something
else that gave me at a glance how controversial a given topic was.
IMO this would go a long way towards - if not legitimizing wikipedia -
giving people an idea of how controversial the topics were, and
depending on the metric, give administrators an idea of whether or not
intervention is required..
Anyways, does something like this exist, and if so, is there a way to
make graphs like these display on each page when you go to wikipedia?
Thanks much,
Ed