On 9 Sep 2002, at 20:34, Axel Boldt wrote:
I think that a subject classification of articles would vastly improve "soft security" and would save regulars a lot of time, since not everyone would have to check every edit as currently seems to be the case.
Maybe a way around it would be to have a new level of op, say op1, one which would be awarded to anyone who has had an account for 30 days or so and hasn't been banned.
Whenever someone who isn't at op1 level makes an edit to a page a "edit check" counter appears and counts days. When anyone with op1 status looks at this page after checking it for vandalism they could reset the counter back to zero.
That way we wouldn't get multiple people needlessly checking the same page for vandalism, and we could ensure that every newbie edit was checked for vandalism.
How about this: the possible topics coincide with the major pages listed on [[Main Page]] (from "Astronomy" to "Visual Arts"). The shortest link path from such a topic page to an article defines that article's topic. If there is no such path, then the article is classified as a topic orphan.
An alternative idea:
For any page follow all the links from it down to about 3-4 levels, and assume these are all on related topics. To make this more accurate we could follow only two way links. Then strip out any article which has more then say 50 double links as it's likely to be the front page, or something similar unrealted to the topic.
Not only will this provide autoclassification but we could also use it for finding pages that needed to be written on a specific topic by automatically generating a list of unwritten articles related to a topic.
Imran