The scaling problem is classically hairy. A rating system should help; it's a similar response to the one eBay had as it grew from a tiny community to a mob (on the way to becoming a visible slice of the universe) -- feedback. Feedback itself had to be conditioned after a while, too, and I imagine the rating system will need continuous re-evaluation. Likewise, this experiment makes sense, to see if slight tweaks to the essentially no-holds-barred editing-without-accountability paradigm can help produce the best encyclopedia; I'm skeptical as to whether slight tweaks can suffice; it only takes a tiny number of jerks to render such an environment too painful to use. See "usenet".
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On 12/5/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Delirium wrote:
So, more interesting would be to address the fundamental problem---that is, mark revisions that have been reviewed by [n] people.
Totally. I think we'll be experimenting a lot in coming months, especially in en where it seems to me that a lot of time-honored processes are starting to be overwhelmed by sheer volume.
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