Wikipedia Quality/Ideas
From Thumper
Bayesian analysis of words used in contributions -- are some words more likely to lead to the contibution being reverted? (ie not just spam -- do people tend to object to contibutions that don't sound like them?)
Or, you could analyze the contributions for the frequency of multisyllabic words, to see if contributors who use "big words" have their contibutions reverted at a higher rate (thinking about professors here).
--A. 20 May 2007
According to the data, about 46% of registered users only make a single edit. How much content do these users actually contribute? Relative to other users? Try using the author contribution code to do this comparison; possibly recreate Kittur's work measuring the productivity of different groups. (Possibly collaborate with Phillip Schmidt.)
--B. 8 Sep 2008
For author contributions, it would be nice to evaluate the average Edit Longevity for featured and non-featured articles. The speculation is that featured articles have a higher average quality for individual users. (Can we find other articles that have high average edit quality, that should be featured articles?)
--F. 9 Sep 2008
More Ideas
BoAdler said ...
BoAdler said ...
Another idea: package up stable revisions into an iphone application!
--BoAdler 14:04, 5 March 2009 (PST)
Recent work on Xurch has me thinking about what else I could do with Firefox extensions. One idea that occurs to me is to make an extension that modifies the Wikipedia site to offer links to the WikiTrust data.
--BoAdler 14:03, 5 March 2009 (PST)