SJ wrote:

Cooling/heating : generate a crude 'trussst' metric; (# of edits +

length of activity) x (simple

factor), with (factor) inculding some aspect of community recognition.

As an article cools, slowly raise the >level of trussst needed to edit it (and vice-versa). If a would-be editor tries to edit the page, artfully

redirect to the talk page or a temp subpage, saying "please add your

suggested changes or modifications <a>

here</a>. If you would like to work on a temporary copy of this

[section|article], you can do so <a>here</a>".

This is a good idea. Simple, elegant, reasonably objective and mostly automated (low maintenance!). It would be interesting to "pressure test" on some sort of beta, just to see the how many ways people could thing to game it (and as we know, people are really clever...).

Marshall Poe The Atlantic Monthly www.memorywiki.org