On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > Slashdot has an interesting thing where they have ratings for > postings, with different categories. They then permit you to consider > certain categories to be more or less important to you (e.g. funny > postings may be raised up in the rating meaning you're more likely to > see them). I think that has been proposed before and reejcted. Could be proposed again, I suppose. > In principle a similar thing could apply to the wikipedia, if we don't > do a hard delete to articles (or only for the truly nasty vandalism > stuff), but simply rate them along multiple axes then it could be > possible for a user to indicate to the wikipedia what he or she > values, and only articles that are highly enough rated for their own > set of values would appear, (with a default set of values used for > anonymous users.) That would mess up linking between articles. > Doing it that sort of way potentially avoids the either it's suitable > for our glorious wikipedia; or it isn't dichotomy, and permits poor > quality articles a chance to improve below the waterline before > becoming full-fledged articles. Userspace is generally used for article incubation in controversial cases. Having a Wikipedia project place or namespace for this is not a bad idea though. > I'm not saying it would be a perfect system, but it would probably be > better than what we have right now; in other words we would have far > less deletionism, because we would have far fewer deletes. You might get arguments over links and redirections to or from or not (as the case may be) this namespace. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
