[WikiEN-l] How is validation supposed to work?

[Ilya N.]

The only problem I was seeing with the validation feature is large-scale
vandalism on large articles and no way to detect it.

On 11/22/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> stevertigo wrote:
>
> > Open question:
> > * How is the validation feature supposed to work?
>
>
> Read:
>
> [[m:Article validation feature]]
> [[m:En validation topics]]
> [[m:Article validation possible problems]]
>
>
> > * How is it to be refined?
> > * How is the data to be used and processed?
>
>
> The current plan is to gather the data and ... do nothing with it. All
> ratings will be visible, exactly as all edits are visible. Nothing will
> be done with the numbers for now except a numerical average per revision
> ID.
>
> The thing is that we don't know what shape the data will take, what
> anticipated problems will eventuate, whether we actually *need* to
> separate anon (reader) and logged-in (editor) votes, etc. So if we
> gather the data *then* throw it at the researchers, etc., to work out
> what it all means, we can then gather data in a more useful way.
>
>
> > * How is such data going to be reinput to work on the
> > wiki to produce results?
>
>
> That's what we can't know until we see what shape the data takes.
>
>
> - d.
>
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