"Poor, Edmund W" wrote:
I'm not sure the consensus is to reject Erik's idea.
Erik is still for it. And I'd like to see it happen, if we can find a way that's technically feasible and doesn't conflict with the Wikipedia's main goals.
Nonetheless, Larry's idea has several advantages:
- Magnus already wrote some software for it.
- It doesn't require any change to PediaWiki software.
- It's troll-proof.
- We can start testing it any day now.
Erik's idea has my support, plus the support of a few others (sorry, names escape me, it's been a hectic week).
It sounds interesting to me for general use in information wikis but I am not certain I think it is a good idea for the English Wikipedia at the moment.
One way to support team certification on Wikipedia is similar to sifter:
- Create certification teams
- Let any team member certify any article
- Display a list of articles, each of which is certified by every member of a given team.
Unanimity sure slows things down occasionally.
I wonder if implementing a trust metric similar to that used at advogato.org but generalized to allow team members to certify/scale each other and users to set their evaluation of the team's product would work better.
This way a selection could be reported as per the weight given by a subset of team members as modified by your personal opinion of the team's typical results.
Regards, Mike Irwin