On 5 April 2011 03:02, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
A lot of the projects that Wikimedia is investing in
today are small and
focused on particular needs of the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikimedia
community. One example might be an article feedback tool that's largely
focused on ensuring that Wikimedia fulfills its Public Policy grant
requirements rather than actually being a useful tool for rating and
evaluating articles. (Imagine if you could find the most fascinating
articles, similar to ted.com's system; now look at what Wikimedia has
implemented.)
*cough* From 2005:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Gerard/1.0
Magnus put together a quick version, but Brion didn't like the code
and it never happened. However, mine is just one such proposal.
Article rating has been a wanted feature for *years*.
What I'd like to see is article rating being more widespread. But
having a grant push it through is *just fine*, because it gets it done
at all.
- d.