Agree - trust scores are likely to be divisive and easily gamed. I do not think "trust score league tables" will help the project.
However as they are also good ways to spot problems and see the "reliability profile" of an article on review, perhaps some way might be found to make some of their results available, in some limited manner? Admin only??
On the assumption admins are trusted anyway so they don't have such a vested interest in numbers, but they might be interested in problem editorship.
The other view is if you can see the aging or trust profile of the article, that's all you need. low trust-score users may simply be legitimate but inexperienced, bold and reverted, etc. There are other ways to ID problem editors, and if you need to know who wrote a specific sentence you can always use WikiBlame to check the history.
So overall I would say you don't need to publish trust scores of users, and even telling a user their own trust score is merely a toehold into self promotion/gaming at best. People should edit, not be encouraged to keep scorecards.....
FT2
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Nathan Russell windrunner@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Emily Monroebluecaliocean@me.com wrote:
Or perhaps it is a reputation score - my memory is fuzzy.
Either way, I would like the score to NOT be published. I'd hate to have the community divided over a piece of software.
Emily
There's also the possibility for "gaming the system" by, e.g., making subtle expansions that are very unlikely to be reverted to articles that don't get much attention. Unless the algorithm is more complex than I thought.
Pakaran
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