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