2009/1/15 Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net:
David Gerard wrote:
Just ignoring the top and bottom 10% of ratings can do wonders for this sort of thing, by the way.
That would work, but may not be necessary if the number of raters is large. I suspect that the figures with and without truncation will tend to converge. If a rating system of this sort were implemented it should be an easily tested hypothesis.
Another idea: make all ratings public information, because they're part of the process of working on the encyclopedia so should be viewable for transparency.
- d.