[WikiEN-l] "Software Weighs Wikipedians' Trustworthiness"

[David Gerard]

On 06/08/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On  0, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> scribbled:

> > It's time for us to think about how we want to use this technology.
> > There are lots of possibilities beyond the precise design that de Alfaro
> > proposes. Brainstorm away.

> The most exciting ones I can think of:
> #We can scrap the 'newest 1%' part of semi-protection. Instead of waiting 4 days, write 4 articles!
> #We can scrap editcountitis - this reputation metric may still not be ideal, but I suspect the metric will reflect the value of one's contributions *a heckuva* lot better than # of edits.
> #Bots could probably benefit from this. An example: Pywikipedia's followlive.py script follows Newpages looking for dubious articles to display for the user to take action on. You could filter out all pages consisting of avg. reputation > n, or something.
> #People have long suggested that edits by anons and new users be buffered for a while or approved; this might be a way of doing it.


I fear the only thing that comes to my mind is "what a fabulous new
set of playground equipment for trolls!"

The point of internet trolling being, after all, to score points over
people by working their social system against them for prank value.

At least those goldfarming for RFA might actually write something.
That would be a nice change.


- d.