--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Platonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Platonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] List of all authors via API
> To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion"
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:19 PM
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> > Guess Who? wrote:
> >> it could be tweaked to return only those
> >> contributors who've made over X contributions.
> of course, I've only
> >> worked on small databases, so I have no idea what
> the overhead on
> >> this would be...
> >
> > Making a lot of edits to the page doesn't
> necessarily mean you've
> > contributed a lot of text to it. It might mean
> you've vandalized it a
> > lot (always reverted) or that you've reverted a
> lot of vandalism.
> >
> > - -- brion
>
> Or simply that you don't know how to use the preview
> button.
lol - true, but it's the quick and dirty metric. if you want something more
sophisticated you could play with weighted means on the positive character
counts (or maybe weighted geometric means - weighted arithmetics might be
easier to do in the SQL, though), which would up-play people who make moderate,
consistent additions. but really, anything you do is going to have have false
positives and false negatives, and would need to be vetted for obvious mistakes.
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