On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:44 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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.
There is an option in preferences to switch on a gadget to display the FA/A/GA/B/C/Start/Stub/Unassessed ratings (and the other categories such as list and so on) on the article page not hidden on the talk page. But as I said before, that is an editorial rating system, not a reader rating system.
Carcharoth