Brion Vibber (brion(a)pobox.com) [050523 11:26]:
David Gerard wrote:
>Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell(a)gmail.com) [050523 08:15]:
>>On 5/22/05, David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
>>>Mmmm. Possibly the results should not even
be viewable for 1.5.
>>So are we to create yet another class of
privileged user now? Those
>>with access to the verification system output?
>>What a horrible idea. Our community is founded on openness and
>No, no, only for 1.5 - so that the data gathering
can proceed without any
>visible output as a running score.
Eeeeeeh? This doesn't make any sense, and sounds
like a terrible,
terrible thing. I would rather remove the survey feature ("validation")
from 1.5 entirely than have some weird hidden secret survey thing.
I really really would like it in for 1.5, as the Wikipedia 1.0 or stable
version plans pretty much require a distributed rating system. So whatever
that takes.
(In any case, as always I strongly recommend removing
it from the core
distribution and making it an extension. It's not a core function and
shouldn't be touching core code much if at all. Changing the
"validation" name would probably also be wise, as it doesn't seem to be
involved with validating anything.)
The name is the least important thing. Article rating? "Rate this article"
on the tab instead of "Validate"?
- d.