[Foundation-l] "RevisionRank": automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

[Yao Ziyuan]

With this idea, not only can Wikipedia provide two views for every article
("Latest" and "Stable"), but we can even select certain Wikipedia articles
and put their Stable versions into a DVD edition or printed edition for
sale.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Wikipedians,
>
> I seem to have found a way to automatically judge which revision of a
> Wikipedia article has the best quality.
>
> It's very simple: look at that article's edit history and find out, within
> a specified time range (e.g. the past 6 months), which revision remained
> unchallenged for the longest time until the next revision occurred.
>
> Of course there can be additional factors to refine this, such as also
> considering each revision's author's reputation (Wikipedia has a reputation
> system for Wikipedians), but I still feel the above idea is the simplest
> and most elegant, just like the original PageRank idea is for Google.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ziyuan Yao
>
>