On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Tobias <church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com>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 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. > > Hey Ziyuan, > > that's great! Have you made a statistical analysis whether the average > revision that remained unchallanged by a long time is better than the > average other revisions? > Honestly I haven't done a lot of tests, but I did investigated how "ultra-stable Linux distributions" (Debian, RHEL/CentOS) select stable software packages. I found Debian's model very similar to my idea: latest software package versions are put in a pool called "unstable"; if a package version remains in the "unstable" pool for a certain period of time with no serious bugs discovered, it is automatically moved to the next pool, "testing"; again, if a package version remains in the "testing" pool for a certain period of time with no bugs discovered, it is automatically moved to the next pool, "stable". Each new major release of Debian is a collection of all packages in the "stable" pool. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Development_procedures) So it seems this "trial by time" approach at least works for a big open source software project like Debian. > It would seem to me (as it seems to Tom), that often that's a false > presumption, though that's probably based on guesses and anecdotal > experience. > > Regards, > Tobias > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l