https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40295

--- Comment #3 from Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> 2012-09-18 
09:10:45 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> We could perhaps use "similarity"? 

The notion of "similarity" and/or semantic proximity of of items (topics) is
very interesting and useful for information retrieval, natural language
processing, etc; but I don't think that it is what we need here. Similarity is
a complex beast and how it should be defined highly depends on what it is
intended to be used for, so I think the notion should be defined on the
application level.

The equality function under consideration here is primarily used to decide
whether a new version of an item is the same as the previous one, i.e. it's
used to check whether an edit is a "null edit" and should thus be omitted from
the page history. That's a fairly low-level and should be pretty strict.

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