Hi Closedshop,
Wikis are not like internet a search engines. A search on Google or Yahoo! might give you thousands of pages with the same subject. Users of wikis are unlikely to be faced with a choice of different pages about the same subject so having a quality ranking won't really help. A score for relevancy (as a percentage) is already given in the search results which is more helpful than qualty.
With regards to translation of headings - isn't the heading the easiest thing to translate? Having standardised heads pre-translated across languages isn't really any help unless you translate the whole article. If I visit a page in Japanese (which I can't read) and the headings are translated in to English (which I can read) I still won't understand the important part of the content. There may be some exceptions to this (for example in technical wikis where all the data is basically the same and only the headings are different) - but it certainly won't help much in Wikipedia.
Sorry to be so negative - let me know if I've miss understood your ideas.
Paul (BTW: ranking 1 to -6 isn't a ranking that many people would recognise - the most widely used system is "5 stars". 1 to 5 stars - like hotels).
----- Original Message n on----- From: "closedshop" closedshop@gmx.de To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: [Ticket#: 122761] WIKI_META_WOLRDWIDE_STRUCTUREofarticles
Hi You missed me, if the threads drifts to a discussion about links or link.
another try: what about a rating under reach site or keyword, the user can click in a school note range of 1(exellent) -6 (bad) , if this article fits the needed quality of the user. So an average count of all votings could be displayed. Then we can see, which keyword in which language is best explained !!!
thanks for doing at least this technically. :-) Microsoft and many others have this user survey, if the article was good or bad.
Just for the statistics, just for the (democratic) quality evaluation.
No, you say "External link" when there's one, and "External links" when there are more. We shouldn't give the impression that we're innumerate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Neilc/External_links#Common_mistakes
"Personally I don't like articles that have an "External link" section"
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