On 14/01/2009, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Not everybody pays attention to GA/FA. A public rating system where anyone can rate each article on a 0-10 scale might be controversial to implement, but on a cumulative basis would give a good statistically based valuation of the article.
Possibly not. The experience with these kinds of systems at Amazon for example shows that interpreting votes is not simple. A lot of people give consistently high, middle or low votes and there are many pathologies, averaging them out gives much worse results than you could expect.