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(a)wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org]
On Behalf Of Daniel Ehrenberg
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7.12
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...
--- Peter Bartlett <pcb21(a)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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