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Hi,
catching up after holidays, I'm not sure if anybody mentioned it, but at
least theoretically it would be possible to make statistical
comparisions between anonymous ratings and logged-in ratings (if anon/
logged in is stored), so after a while we could show if there a
statictically significant differences between both ratings.
And on a related topic: I think ratings (who rates what how) should be
visible, meaning raters are conscious about their decisions and the
consequences.
Till
I suggest that we allow ratings by anonymous users (IP
numbers),
at least in 1.5.
Reasons for this:
* 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 ;-)
- d.
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