... Whatever becomes a professional review mechanism for Wikipedia, let me tell ya how I think it should work: the reviewer should look at a candidate
article,
perhaps make a few last minute changes on Wikipedia, and then press a button, and it's posted as
certified.
End of story. After our experience with Nupedia, I think it should be *that* simple. On this conception, *Wikipedia* is the editing mechanism; the review mechanism consists of qualified people *just* pressing *one* button. (I'm just offering this as an idea--I'm not saying that it's *definitely* what we should do. But I do strongly feel it should be that simple, or nearly that simple. Once we determine the venue, we can discuss the details fo the mechanism.)
Larry
Wow Larry, I really like this idea. It is simple, fast, easy, doesn't require freezing of a Wikipedia article during a review and most importantly it would not represent a version fork. There could even be a second level pass by somebody else with even higher qualifications. They would review the Wikipedia article sometime after the first reviewer, make some needed changes (possibly reverting some less than stellar edits since the last review), click a button and presto!
I have a Bachelors degree in Biology with an unofficial concentration in microbiology so sign me up to review some basic biology and microbiology articles. There would be criteria for a reviewer to follow, right? We need to work this stuff out. I suggest we create a Metapedia page to work-out some details. I would like to also go over Nupedia's review guidelines and see if we can get some good ideas on what to do and not to do from that. We also need to dig-up your original mailing list post on this subject in the archives. There were some great posts made during the great beta/stable debate several months ago that should also be mined for ideas.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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