Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing new Wikimedia Foundation CTCO: Gayle Karen Young

2011-12-20 Thread Mardetanha
Welcome, wish you best, Mardetanha On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > ***Resending this note because the earlier version seemed to have > really broken formatting. Hope this is better.*** > > Hello folks, > > I’m delighted to tell you that the Wikimedia Foundation has a new >

[Foundation-l] IRC office hours with the WMF features team, Jan. 4th 2012

2011-12-20 Thread Steven Walling
Hey everyone, Since folks have been asking about it, I wanted to announce that the features development team at the Wikimedia Foundation will be holding an office hours (in #wikimedia-office) about the general past, present, and future of MediaWiki features being worked on here at the WMF. This w

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

2011-12-20 Thread Finne Boonen
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 14:55, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Tobias > wrote: > >> On 12/19/2011 11:38 PM, Yao Ziyuan wrote: >> > Hi Wikipedians, >> > >> > I seem to have found a way to automatically judge which revision of a >> > Wikipedia article has the best quality. >> >

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

2011-12-20 Thread henna
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 14:55, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Tobias > wrote: > >> On 12/19/2011 11:38 PM, Yao Ziyuan wrote: >> > Hi Wikipedians, >> > >> > I seem to have found a way to automatically judge which revision of a >> > Wikipedia article has the best quality. >> >

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

2011-12-20 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 2011/12/20 David Gerard : > > On 20 December 2011 01:16, Tom Morris wrote: > > > >> Under your metric, in this scenario, the edits of a sysop and an > >> experienced user, or later the WikiProject editors, would not be > >> chosen as the h

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

2011-12-20 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:07 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > -- > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > > > > > Hi Wikipedians, > > > > > > I seem to have found a way to automatically judge which revision of a > > >

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

2011-12-20 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
2011/12/20 David Gerard : > On 20 December 2011 01:16, Tom Morris wrote: > >> Under your metric, in this scenario, the edits of a sysop and an >> experienced user, or later the WikiProject editors, would not be >> chosen as the high-quality stable version. > > > Yao did in fact mention that other

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

2011-12-20 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Tobias wrote: > On 12/19/2011 11:38 PM, Yao Ziyuan 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

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

2011-12-20 Thread WereSpielChequers
> > -- > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Yao Ziyuan 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

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

2011-12-20 Thread Tobias
On 12/19/2011 11:38 PM, Yao Ziyuan 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

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

2011-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2011 01:16, Tom Morris wrote: > Under your metric, in this scenario, the edits of a sysop and an > experienced user, or later the WikiProject editors, would not be > chosen as the high-quality stable version. Yao did in fact mention that other factors would need consideration. A