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

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Indeed, I suppose those criterias which have only to do with the
editors history can be separated out as "editor rank" for bragging
rights, if we think that would help community building.

Philip

On 4/30/08, Fred Marchee <fred at intercookie.com> wrote:
> 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
>  >
>  >
>
> Rewarding enthusiastic editors/edits is like music in my ears. Keeps you
>  working for hours....
>
>  Add to your list:
>
>  Editor is a regular contributor -> higher rank
>  Editor is member since.... with ** edits/month -> the higher, the higher
>  the rank
>  Fred.
>
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