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> From: Fæ <[email protected]>
> Subject: Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content (was Our 
> next strategy plan-Paid editing)
> Date: 17 April 2014 10:09:14 BST
> To: Michael Peel <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi Mike, could you repost this for me? Apparently I'm now banned from
> the UK list.
> 
> Fae
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> From: Fæ <[email protected]>
> Date: 17 April 2014 10:01
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] [Wikimedia-l] Rating Wikimedia content
> (was Our next strategy plan-Paid editing)
> To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> It runs on WMFlabs, so by default the code is open, for simplicity I
> have posted the code at
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/code/TARDIS.py>. It is
> fairly simply written in Python, but a bit quick and dirty as usual.
> 
> Fae
> 
> On 17 April 2014 09:54, Michael Maggs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That looks a very interesting tool.  Definitely worth adding to the wiki 
>> page as related work that we could potentially make use of (if you permit, 
>> Fae; the source code is not open is it?)
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>>> Have a play with
>>> <http://tools.wmflabs.org/faebot/cgi-bin/TARDIS.py?file=TARDIS.jpg&category=TARDIS>,
>>> it would not be hard to adapt into reports.
>>> 
>>> This gave a way of solving arguments in Commons Deletion Requests by
>>> comparing a file's size and pixel resolution to others in similar
>>> categories. There was no easy way of doing this on-wiki. Knowing that
>>> a file is in the top 25% even by this crude measure, suddenly makes it
>>> appear more valuable, while a doubtful file in the bottom 10% seems a
>>> good candidate for deletion if it is a marginal out of scope case.
>>> 
>>> Setting "hard" measures for size or resolution is not always
>>> meaningful. Many small images may have educational use and have no
>>> higher resolution equivalent, though in my size comparison report
>>> (off-line) I do have a version that plucks out the smallest images in
>>> a category and passes them back as a re-paste-able gallery for review.
>>> 
>>> Fae
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