Thanks Wayne, Leigh and Eric for your valuable thoughts. I am deeply concerned about WE's progress as a resource for quality learning materials. It should not turn into another Wikipedia. We do not want that to happen. We want WE to have content that is useful for various levels of learning leading to some certification. It is possible that some of the materials can be taken up by reputed insitutions to offer courses of their own. But, something of such a nature to happen, it is more important ot have quality resources, and also organized resources. The ContentInfo template is quite comprehensive and provides most information that should be attached to all completed paages. While thinking of the organization of content and its quality, I thought of having a rating system, and also checked the Wikipedia ratings. But, these are not suitable, as they are not dynamic like the one with GoogleGroup. People do not use it, as they are not expected to. Once, we annouce that the community is responsible for the quality of the material, and its rating system, users will start rating the content. However, for new uses it would be de-motivating. Thus, only completed pages be put on rating. Also rating needs to be dynamic, and may include number of hits, time a user stay on the page, and actual user rating on quality as per the specified ContentInfo. The feature article concept is good. There is also another system on math ratings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Maths_rating). These are all based on select editors. What I intend to is a community based one, not just select users alone. May be as Eric has pointed out, in the process of edits, and their familiarity with the system, there also can be a rating system for the users as well. To start with the Flagged Revison is also a good idea. Now, we must focus on quality content development simultaneously with Wiki Skills training. May be we can come up with an WikiEd Content Excellence Award in PCF 6.
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