Yann Forget (yann@forget-me.net) [050523 08:21]:
Le Sunday 22 May 2005 17:05, Magnus Manske a écrit :
David Gerard schrieb:
I suggest that we allow ratings by anonymous users (IP numbers), at least in 1.5.
- we've always worked by leaving things as open as possible and only restricting as needed;
- we're explicitly not using the data for anything important yet, so if
ten thousand rating spammers put [[Image:Autofellatio.jpg]] top marks for everything, it won't actually affect anything;
- the raw data will be of great interest to people, and as wide as
possible is good. (I can see the academics studying Wikipedia slavering for the ratings data tarball ;-)
- Later, we will allow only logged-in users to rate articles, right?
Otherwise, we'll lose a great part of the perceived reliability improvement, IMHO. But how can we really set up this system if the data we use as a foundation for the decision is based on anon entries as well?
I think it better if only logged in users can validate articles. But well it depend what we want to do with this feature: selecting articles for an offline publication or studying psychology and sociology of Wikipedia readers ? We have a precedent: only logged in users can upload images.
It would be interesting to gather the data. Possibly the name of the tab should be changed from "Validate" to "Rate this article".
Although vote-spamming will happen with anons, it'll still provide interesting numbers. And we're not obligated to use them.
- d.