> (Perhaps the vandal fighting tools could have access to the scores > without their users having such access?)
Being a user of vandal fighting tools, I like that idea. Emily On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/8/31 FT2 <[email protected]>: >> Agree - trust scores are likely to be divisive and easily gamed. I >> do not >> think "trust score league tables" will help the project. >> >> However as they are also good ways to spot problems and see the >> "reliability >> profile" of an article on review, perhaps some way might be found >> to make >> some of their results available, in some limited manner? Admin only?? > > Perhaps the trust scores could be released in the form of categories. > You can't find out an individuals actual score but you can find out if > they are "untrustworthy", "average" or "trustworthy" (with dividing > lines that we have spent at least a gigabyte arguing over, of course). > I can't see any real use for the exact scores - the precision will be > so low that the rough categories are all you can conclude from them. > > I'm not convinced there is sufficient use for even such categories, > though. They might be useful for prioritising recent changes in vandal > fighting tools, that's about it. (Perhaps the vandal fighting tools > could have access to the scores without their users having such > access?) > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
