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Tom Simonite writes at MIT Technology Review that the Wikimedia Foundation is rolling out new software trained to know the difference between an honest mistake and intentional vandalism in an effort to make editing Wikipedia less psychologically bruising. One motivation for the project is a significant decline in the number of people considered active contributors to the flagship English-language Wikipedia: it has fallen by 40 percent over the past eight years, to about 30,000.
Research indicates that the problem is rooted in Wikipedians' complex bureaucracy and their often hard-line responses to newcomers' mistakes, enabled by semi-automated tools that make deleting new changes easy. The new ORES system, for "Objective Revision Evaluation Service," can be trained to score the quality of new changes to Wikipedia and judge whether an edit was made in good faith or not. ORES can allow editing tools to direct people to review the most damaging changes. The software can also help editors treat rookie or innocent mistakes more appropriately, says Aaron Halfaker who helped diagnose that problem and is now leading a project trying to fight it. "I suspect the aggressive behavior of Wikipedians doing quality control is because they're making judgments really fast and they're not encouraged to have a human interaction with the person," says Halfaker. "This enables a tool to say, 'If you're going to revert this, maybe you should be careful and send the person who made the edit a message.'"
(Score: 3, Funny) by jdavidb on Monday December 07 2015, @05:35PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2015, @05:38PM
how many years it took to get the "Yogurt" article title renamed
That implies that is has been renamed. Yoghurt redirects to Yogurt for me (en.wikipedia.org).
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Monday December 07 2015, @05:47PM
Yoghurt redirects to Yogurt for me
That may be, but where does the WOOSH article direct to?
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Monday December 07 2015, @06:40PM
Check Wikipedia in 5 minutes, and you will see it redirects to Obama.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Monday December 07 2015, @07:19PM
To Whoosh, of course.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday December 07 2015, @06:14PM
Since the other response is just mocking you, I'll clarify. The article was originally located at "Yoghurt" a very uncommon English spelling. It took years to move it to the much more common spelling.
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday December 07 2015, @08:42PM
It's still used by the national TV corporation: bbc.co.uk/food/yoghurt
It's still used by the largest distribution newspaper: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-19005/The-good-yoghurt-guide.html
Broadsheets use the spelling too: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/10563265/Theres-HOW-MUCH-sugar-in-a-low-fat-yoghurt-Skirting-the-Issue.html , http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/food/recipes/article4505513.ece
Recipe sites use it: http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/7310/homemade-natural-yoghurt.aspx , https://www.cookipedia.co.uk/recipes_wiki/Yoghurt
Producers and equiptment manufacturers use it: http://www.clandeboye.co.uk/yoghurt/ , http://www.yoghurtdirect.co.uk/
It's even more common in some other English speaking countries, like Australia and New Zealand.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday December 08 2015, @05:46AM
That's only because all these organizations refer to Wikipedia.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 08 2015, @01:54PM
Do a google search for both and you will see one far outweighs the other in results.
You should also note that the h less spelling is accepted and routinely used in pretty much every English speaking country including Brittan and Australia. Where as the version with the h is rarely seen in the US or Canada. Therefore it only makes sense to use the version that is acceptable everywhere, and is much more common.
If you go look in the Oxford dictionary you will see that the even they agree the primary spelling has no H.
Or you can look at the actual source word, Turkish I believe. No H.
No matter how you cut it, it only makes sense to use the version with no H.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 09 2015, @08:50AM
Looking at Turkish is stupid. It doesn't have a "g" either. It has a g-bar, which traditionally, in particular when the word entered English, was transliterated as "gh". Modern attitudes to Turkish transliteration in no way alter words that are already in English.
Americans can have their "g" spelling, I have no problem with that, they've got their own spelling conventions already, one more makes no difference. However, they should stop trying to teach the English, Austrialian and New Zealand speakers of the language how to spell. (And if you actually do the googling, you'll find your claims about the popularity of the two spellings are pulled from your arse. Yes, "arse", not "ass". In .au, "gh" isn't just significant, it's the *majority*.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 09 2015, @03:32AM
It took eight years and eight Requested Move discussions, according to a proponent of "yogurt."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Born2cycle/Yogurt_Principle [wikipedia.org]
C.f.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrewa/Yoghurt_principle [wikipedia.org]
which recommends that "insignificant discussions should be avoided."
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday December 09 2015, @05:57AM
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(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday December 09 2015, @06:00AM
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