[wikipedia.mozdev] Wikipedia's internal PageRank and quality ratings of articles

[Brian]

I am doing research on automatically assigning quality ratings to Wikipedia
articles. You can read a description of this work in a recent draft of our
paper [1]. One thing we need to do a better job at this is additional human
ratings, similar to those done by the Wikipedia Editorial Team [2]. We would
like to give editors a chance to tell Wikipedia what they think about an
article in a short radio-dial survey. This data can be used to train our
machine learning model to automatically assign quality ratings to articles.

In return for a small widget with a drop-down survey, we can provide AJAX
access to the PageRank of Wikipedia articles, computed on Wikipedia's own
internal link data, in addition to our most recent quality ratings for
articles. This could provide functionality similar to the PR meter on the
Google Toolbar.

We would like to have all of this work done in AJAX. We can provide a
database backend either on the Toolserver [3] our a web server of our own
[4]. This information could easily be displayed in widget in your toolbar
similar to the Google Toolbar.

Let me know if you are interested in this, or a related proposal. We plan to
make all of our source code, roughly 3000 lines so far, open source so that
these ratings can be computed by anyone.

[1] Exploring the Feasibility of Automatically Rating Online Article Quality

http://whisper.colorado.edu/RassbachPincockMingus07.pdf

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver

[4] http://whisper.colorado.edu
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