So guys, probably you won’t comment on this one because there are posted around 30 blog posts in the last 24 hours. Go procrastination!
I found an article worth reading about the reliability of Wikipedia articles we talked about a coupple of weeks ago. How are these guys (Xiangju Qin and Pádraig Cunningham) measuring reliability? I will tell you:
– they ignore anonymous contributions
– they measure the longevity of a certain edit. In other words: how long does an edit last after it has been edited? This probably says something about the quality
– they measure the authority of each editor by looking at the number of other editors a given editor is linked to (and a difficult algorithm I do not understand)
All the things above are combined to measure the quality of an article. Of course there are still some errors in the algorithm. But I think this will be so usefull to Wikipedia.As we learned there are not that much editors and their quality is mostly unknown.
It’s the next big thing for Wikipedia, an innovation of which I think it’s going to change some real important things in Wikipedia’s rules and interface. What do you guys think?
