On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
We don't use votes... ;)
I think Lydia was referring to the votes on the bugzilla bug page, 14 votes so far :)
If we forget about the implementation of badges and discuss the contributions; there are no single correct way to weight contributions. Assume some user A write N characters as a continuous string, and some user B writes the same number of characters spread out over a text changing N words into something else. Those two edits can have the same edit distance but still have a completely different entropy. In the last case, who "owns" the changed words? The original author or the later one? This isn't obvious at all.
I thought Wikitrust [1] and others [2] had already addressed this issues? In any case there is no need for an "exact" attribution, an approximate percentage score would be a good enough solution for practical purposes.
[1] http://www.wikitrust.net/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mshavlovsky/Authorship_Tracking