On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)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