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