Hi. I've been studying the issue of article validation on Wikipedia for almost two months now (since before the Seigenthaler incident), and I've written up an in-depth analysis of it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TidyCat/Achieving_validation_on_Wikipedia
I would appreciate any feedback anyone would be willing to offer me.
-- TidyCat
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Tidy Cat wrote:
Hi. I've been studying the issue of article validation on Wikipedia for almost two months now (since before the Seigenthaler incident), and I've written up an in-depth analysis of it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TidyCat/Achieving_validation_on_Wikipedia
I would appreciate any feedback anyone would be willing to offer me.
-- TidyCat
That seems an admirable summary of the underlying problems and the various competing proposals to date. Your suggested solution also has many good points; I'm not sure of its scalability, though; the more rules and process, the less scalable something is.
Getting the balance right between the extremes of an anarchic free-for-all and a full Nupedia-style multi-level verification process is going to be hard, but I think all the recent suggestions from all sides of the argument have been remarkably useful and constructive.
Can anyone tell me what the status of the article-rating software is, please?
-- Neil