[mb-users] Brainztorming: rank edits, not users

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Hi all,

I had an idea while showering this morning. There's been some talking
about adding new user levels between the standard editor and
autoeditors, or otherwise provde a ranking system to tell the bad
edits from the good.

Objective: find those edits most in need of checking (separate noise
and signal in the edit queue)

I'm thinking that instead of ranking users and changing the voting
periods, we could rank each edit individually based on a numer of
factors, where the user is only one.

Examples:

Edit starts at rank 0

- if the edit is from an editor with less than 10 votes, increase rank
dramatically
- if the edit is from an editor with high failed edit ration, increase rank
- if an has no-votes but no comments from no-voters, increase rank dramatically
- if add release edit is missing release event, increase rank
- if add release edit is missing discid, increase rank
- if add release... (you can think of many parameters here)
- if add wikipedia AR links to article of very different name, increase rank
- if removing release with discid, increase rank
- if capitalization doesn't match what guess case would give, increase rank
- if script doesn't match with actual content, increase rank (e.g.
check if all characters are in unicode latin blocks)

I think you can imagine many "filters" which can be applied
automatically and give an indication of the quality of the edit.

WDYAT?

Philip