On 10/8/05, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Magnus Manske wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
But it's really not joyful to see bad writing in two very prominent articles.
Just as a reminder, there *is* a validation/rating/whatever-you-call-it system sitting in MediaWiki for month, waiting to be tested.
I'm attaching this to Magnus' email not so much as a response, but to throw out an idea for allowing us to put this into testing, & hopefully production.
As I understand, the issue why this feature has not been enabled on Wikipedia is because of the load it would put on the servers: keeping track of another mesh of tables with the validation values for every revision of articles would bring the system to its knees.
Perhaps someone could explain to me, from the point of view of a developer, why it would affect wikipedia *at all* if there was a javascript function to send an encrypted response carrying a user's rating of an article to a *separate* server.
The rating function would not have to operate in real time. With good design, it wouldn't ever even have to be synchronized. As long as the article name, wikipedia language, and datestamp for the rating were recorded, the two servers could be on different continents.