Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales (jwales@wikia.com) [050201 07:13]:

David Gerard wrote:

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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.