Geoff Burling (llywrch@agora.rdrop.com) [050710 10:49]:
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, David Gerard wrote:
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.
Oooo. That's actually an interesting wrinkle. That one could do with more thought.
& 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.
Aw. Don't Bite The Newbies ;-) We should take notice of the fact that Wikipedia is a fascinating structure as a geek toy.
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.
You've mentioned it here, so the idea isn't lost!
- d.