Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton <at> gmail.com> writes:
On 23 May 2010 01:17, Rob Lanphier <robla <at> robla.net> wrote:
The problem as I understand it is this. Other
wikis (e.g. German, Polish)
are using FlaggedRevs as originally designed, with many different flags
corresponding to "sighted", "quality", "accuracy" and so
on. The proposed
implementation on English Wikipedia is binary: either an article is accepted
or its not. Many strings in the English version were changed to correspond
to this usage.
As I understand it, the software has three dimensions (accuracy, depth
and style) each with five levels. The fact that the enwiki
implementation only uses one of those dimensions and only two of the
levels shouldn't really change anything - the other 13 messages are
just unused.
In hindsight, the number of dimensions and number of levels shouldn't
have been hard-coded at all. There just have just been a two
dimensional array with the size and contents entirely customisable
(either through the message system or a special configuration page).
Both the number and the size of the dimensions is customizable - hu.wikipedia,
for example, uses a single dimension with three settings (unreviewed, sighted,
featured). There is a meta-dimension with pre-set levels (in the old version:
none, sighted, quality, pristine) which is the one taken into account for access
permissions/which version to show. How it depends on the manually set dimensions
is again customizable; eg. you can set the sighted means accuracy>=1,
accessibility>=1, neutrality>=2. Or (which is, I think, what most wikis did) you
can have a single manually set dimension with names like "sighted" and have the
hardcoded dimension mirror its value.