I think the idea has merit. One thing I am concious of in our work is the number of unfinished pages we have let sit. I wish I could nominate (and elevate) what we have 'finished' for peer review - enter the star rating? If the people we have working got a poor rating, I think it would put a bee in their bonnet and they'd jump up and do something about it :) What about we have a range of templates like the WikiMediaFoundation projects have? "This lesson is page is under review", "This page has been nominated for shawcase" etc
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Wayne Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sanjaya --- > > I'm keen to hear your thoughts how/why you think a start system will help > WE achieve its aims? > > Do you see a star system as a mechanism to motivate WikiEducators? or Is > this a mechanism to express a collective view on the quality of a resource? > > Interestingly -- we host our main list on Google Groups which has a star > rating system for posts -- but I've noticed that its not widely used by the > community. > > That said, I'm sure that there are innovative ways in which a star system > could be implemented through a smart template solution. My personal view is > that any system that attempts to make any kind of value judgement on > popularity and/or quality must be community driven. I'm also wondering about > the impact a start system might have on newbies in the community. > > Lets say I'm a new teacher grappling with the wiki syntax, structure, > pedagogy etc -- and someone comes along and gives me a poor rating. Would > that motivate me to do better or discourage me from continuing. That said, I > do think we can learn from the community incentives in the WMF projects. For > example, Wikipedia have a featured article system where the community > nominate articles for the status of a feature article. > > See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles > > There is a rigorous process regarding the criteria for featured articles > as well as community discussion on whether a nomination will qualify. Once > an article has attained the status of featured article -- as star is > inserted on the page. > > Perhaps we should think about an equivalent or similar process in WE? I > guess the place to start would be to think about the criteria we would use. > > On the quality issue -- I've been doing a little thinking about the > appropriateness of implementing the Flagged Revisions extension. See: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevisions > > Its a pretty sophisticated tool where assigned reviewers take > responsibility for expressing a value judgement on predefined criteria. What > I like about the system is that the page view can be set to display the > latest reviewed version -- without restricting the ability to draft edit and > add value to existing materials. > > Perhaps this is something we should think about. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 04:06 -0700, Missan wrote: > > Dear All, > Can we think of developing an interactive five point/star rating > system for the pages on the WikiEducator. Depending on user hit and > user feedback, the star system should dyanamically change. I am not > sure such a system is possible in WIkiEd or not. But, I think some > rating system is there in Wikipedia, but I am not able to understand. > Can anybody help on this? > > with regards, > > Sanjaya Mishra > IGNOU > > > > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
