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'''The Illiterate Editor: Metadata-Driven Revert Detection in Wikipedia''' - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Jeffrey Segall and Rachel Greenstadt.

== Overview ==
As the community depends more heavily on Wikipedia as a source of reliable information, the ability to quickly detect and remove detrimental information becomes increasingly important. The longer incorrect or malicious information lingers in a source perceived as reputable, the more likely that information will be accepted as correct and the greater the loss to source reputation. Authors present The Illiterate Editor (IllEdit), a content-agnostic, metadata-driven classification approach to Wikipedia revert detection. Authors primary contribution is in building a metadata-based feature set for detecting edit quality, which is then fed into a Support Vector Machine for edit classification. By analyzing edit histories, the IllEdit system builds a profile of user behavior, estimates expertise and spheres of knowledge, and determines whether or not a given edit is likely to be eventually reverted. The success of the system in revert detection (0.844 F-measure) as well as its disjoint feature set as compared to existing, content-analyzing vandalism detection systems, shows promise in the synergistic usage of IllEdit for increasing the reliability of community information.