Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales (jwales(a)wikia.com) [050201 07:13]:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > As Jimbo has said a couple of times (to me at the last London meet, and
> > reported at a previous meet), the best thing to do with a rating system at
> > the moment is ... nothing. Run the rating system for a time period, gather
> > the data, *don't reveal it yet* for fear of affecting the rating
> > experiment, *then* release the data for scrutiny and ideas. how people rate
> > things given a simple system, see if the results of that rating accord with
> > common sense, see if they approximate the desired Rating System That Scales
> > (the way FAC doesn't quite).
> Yes, perfect.
I asked on wikitech-l, and Magnus said his rating code is not (in his
opinion) ready for prime time yet. Anyone want to beat it into shape in
short order?
- d.
