From Thumper
At UC Santa Cruz, I am researching "Wikipedia Quality" as part of the UCSC Wiki Lab. Our first foray into this area was a paper on computing reputations for authors. This turned out to be a huge project, because there are lots of questions about how to attribute text to authors and how to measure the quality of contributions; the paper covers these ideas, but does not investigate them in any depth. Since then, we've expanded the scope of the research to include assigning trust to words, and consideration of other quality measure for contributions.
In the links below, you'll find some of the raw notes about what I'm working on. If you have thoughts on what I'm doing, feel free to leave a comment. (Sometimes I'll clean up comments, too, to help organize my thoughts, so don't be offended if yours goes missing.) This is something like a blog, but using the wikipedia software. If there isn't a link to leave a comment, go ahead and just leave your note on the discussion page for what you're reading.
[edit] Research Notes
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- Ideas - lots of people have suggestions on what I should be doing, but they fall through the cracks unless they end up here.
- User Behavior - users act funny, sometimes
- Hadoop - making our code easy to distribute
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