On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, David Gerard wrote:
Geoff Burling (llywrch@agora.rdrop.com) [050709 03:59]:
- Another person afterwards buttonholed me, & proposed Yet
Another Method of stablizing Wikipedia content for the 1.0 release. I tried to assure him that David Gerard had the issue well in hand, & was working towards a workable implementation that would likely be released in 12 months' time.
Hah. It's stalled at the validation feature, which is stalled at Brion not liking the present code :-) But the code is getting some work and appears to be moving forward, which is good.
What was his Yet Another suggestion?
To ask people to rate the articles, then based on an algorythm that would measure the rating against how many changes had been made to the article in the last time period.
By the word "rating", he appeared to suggest a method not as comprehensive as what I've seen discussed on the relevant meta page -- & didn't demonstrate any interest in my attempt to explain what work had already been done. Or maybe it was that we've hashed out this issue many times, & proposed many Yet Another Methods ourselves, & I wasn't all that interested in listening to a suggestion from someone who had only heard of Wikipedia that night & all he knew was what I had told him.
I hope the latter was not the case: I would hate to discover that someone had come up with a good idea, & due to my own prejudices I failed to give it a fair hearing.
Geoff