Yann Forget a écrit:
Hi,
Le Sunday 22 May 2005 17:05, Magnus Manske a écrit :
>David Gerard schrieb:
>
>>I suggest that we allow ratings by anonymous users (IP numbers), at
least
>>in 1.5.
>>
>>Reasons for this:
>>
>>* we've always worked by leaving things as open as possible and only
>> restricting as needed;
>>
>>* we're explicitly not using the data for anything important yet, so if
>>ten thousand rating spammers put [[Image:Autofellatio.jpg]] top
marks for
everything, it won't actually affect anything;
* the raw data will be of great interest to people, and as wide as
possible is good. (I can see the academics studying Wikipedia slavering
for the ratings data tarball ;-)
Two reasons against this:
* Later, we will allow only logged-in users to rate articles, right?
Otherwise, we'll lose a great part of the perceived reliability
improvement, IMHO. But how can we really set up this system if the data
we use as a foundation for the decision is based on anon entries as well?
I think it better if only logged in users can validate articles.
But well it depend what we want to do with this feature: selecting
articles
for an offline publication or studying psychology and
sociology of
Wikipedia
readers ?
We have a precedent: only logged in users can upload images.
This is not the same.
Uploading images is a way to improve the quality of the project. We had
to put restrictions to limit vandalism.
However, I think we need feedback from readers as well. Possibly a way
to go around of vandalism would be to allow voting with a valid email
address on top ?
Ant