On 5/20/05, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote:
Alfio Puglisi schrieb:
is there a way to see who validated a certain
article? Or which articles
a user validated?
I have not made such a display for privacy reasons. Public voting is
more a Chinese thing ;-)
Ah. I'd feared this response. We don't have public voting in
meat-space for as much for reasons of vote buying than for reasons of
privacy and intimidation.
In a world where we can't directly prevent socket puppets, and were
intimidation is not likely to have substantial consiquences, I'm not
sure the same rules apply.
I'd also like to have just a tad bit more information on our
anonymized contributor..
For each hashed contributor I'd like to know: roughly how many edits
to the main namespace (we can quantize this into bins that will
promise a large anonymity set for example 0-100, 100-500,500-1500,
1500-5000, 5000+, would probably hide a user within a set of many many
wikpedias), and potentially a flag that indicates roughly how long the
user has been an editor. I'd also want to know how many votes they've
cast in total, but thats easy enough to get by walking the dataset. I
believe we can provide this data without breaking anonymity.
Although I question the goal of anonymity here. :)
It would be no problem, though, to generate such
pages. Maybe anonymized
would be good (to see the indidual comments).
Perhaps store each vote with an identifyer which is a sha1(username +
wikipedia_secret_cookie). This way we could do proper statistics on
the results.
This is pretty important, if I'm trying to decide which articles are
important to put on a DVD, the votes of someone who goes around
voting 'NO' (or always 'YES') on every article mean absolutly nothing
to me (since I can't include them all or exclude them all :) ) and
will randomly skew my decision making (based on which subset of the
always-no or always-yes crowd has found which subsubset of my
articles).
is there a way
to see who created a certain validation topic?
No. My idea was to have consensus first on what topics to create. The
execution of that decision is supposed to be a boring thing :-)
Thats fair.
It would also be useful to have a 'my votes' feature in watchlist to
users would know when it's time to go update their votes on articles.
I like how we display the users previous vote when they go to vote on
a new revision... it would be handy to have a 'diff from lasttime I
voted' button.
