Cool, thanks David! I had read some of the stuff about the validation project, but no specifics. I checked it out at test.leuksman.com, and it looks great - I just want to see how flexibly it's implemented, whether the questions are easily configurable, etc. (for epinions style ratings).

I saw somewhere concerns about people promoting their articles and also people have retaliatory negative votes. I see that the voting has the option to "Clear my older validation data" - setting this to "yes" and using "median" instead of "mean" average will help reduce the impact of self-promoters and others.

Well, I guess it's time to take a deep breath, set up a test installation of 1.5, and dig in!

David Gerard wrote:

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It's live on Wikimedia wikis (or at least en: and de: Wikipedias) for 1.5. You can try it out on http://test.leuksman.com/ - click on 'Validate' in the Monobook skin.

At the moment nothing is planned to be done with the data other than gather it, make it viewable (you can view every rating, just like you can view every edit) and show a numerical average. We'll see what people do with the test data, then we'll probably write some apps for it, tweak the questions and then throw away the data and start over.

I think a *lot* of MediaWiki installations will want to play with this feature.

Best Regards, Aerik