Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell(a)gmail.com) [050523 08:15]:
On 5/22/05, David Gerard
<fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Mmmm. Possibly the results should not even be
viewable for 1.5.
So are we to create yet another class of privileged
user now? Those
with access to the verification system output?
What a horrible idea. Our community is founded on openness and
No, no, only for 1.5 - so that the data gathering can proceed without any
visible output as a running score.
I anticipate the results of the data-gathering test to be available in a
downloadable form for people to pick over in close detail.
> I think it'd be horrible if "low
ratings" suddenly became a VFD reason.
Eh, 'low raitings' would never be a direct
reason to VFD.
I'm sure someone said that about "notability", which isn't in the
deletion
policy either.
You watch. I bet someone will try just that and someone else will think
it's a dandy idea for culling Wikipedia.
However, the rating system could be (ab)used to help
automate the
voting collection process for places where we already vote (FAC, VFD)
by providing a uniform way to collect votes and perform tallies.
It provides some framework for article metadata, yes. Or at least for ideas
on metadata.
- d.