Yes, a voting system would do nicely. Even if not used for filtering, people could tell how many people found an article useful, etc. This really could work in so many ways! I think this type of thing is defiantly something that we should talk about, and develop into something useable.
-- Michael Becker
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ehrenberg Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7.12 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...
--- Peter Bartlett pcb21@btconnect.com wrote:
Erik wrote:
On a wiki, we risk "flagging wars", and by defining
what "can be
considered offensive" we are leaving NPOV behind.
One possibility is that each user has the option to give a page a score : 1 meaning "Doesn't need filtering" through to 10 "Nearly everyone would want to filter this". Then the overall 'score' for a page is the average of all scores users have given it. Then someone browsing the 'pedia could choose to filter at a particular score e.g. browse at 0 (filter everything with an score of more than 0 i.e. everything!) to 10 (= filter articles with average score 10 i.e. nothing!). 11 viewing configurations available to the user... I believe Google only has 3!
Because each person/ip could only cast one score per article (though of course they could change their score as the article changes) "flagging wars" would be difficult because it would require ip-hopping/multiple-log-in to try to tip the score in a particular direction.
This idea may be computationally quite feasible... we already have to store everyone who's watching an article... maybe we could store everyone who's scoring an article too. (Watchlist has a tag saying "article changed since you last scored" etc).
Obviously the idea extends to other scores too... instead of a "filter score" you could have a "quality score" and users could browse only articles that on average believed to be high quality.
Obvious disadvantage : The filter is "1-dimensional" i.e. you can't filter on sex, religion whatever... only on the score... so if religion were to get scores of about 5 and sex 7.. to filter religion you would have to filter sex too.. I don't know if it can be made to fit with team certification idea.
Anyhow these are only implementational ideas. My personal view is that any sort of filtering along these lines is going to take effort on the part of users.. perhaps we should stick to writing the encyclopedia for now!
Pete
That sounds like a very good idea, but how would people deal with unrated pages? Let's say all of the unmodified rambot pages were unrated. Then no one with any sort of filtering could go there. If someone made a rating bot to solve this, it would seriously undermine the system.
A way to (partially) solve this could be to have a period wherein people can rate pages (and are required to in each edit) but ratings cannot yet be used for filtering.
Overall, it's a good idea but not practical. --LittleDan
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