Andre Engels wrote:
I have looked at the validation option on test, and
want to make the
following remarks:
Disclaimer: I wrote the validation feature some time ago, and haven't
touched it since. I'm surprised it is still working at all...
* Can the categories be changed/extended?
Yes. There should be no categories at all when the feature is turned on
at a wiki(pedia). Adding categories requires SQL, IIRC, but is otherwise
quite easy. Deleting categories, or changing the "value range", not so much.
* Putting suitability for 1.0 in a single binary choice
is too
simplistic.
My though was to have a machine-readable yes/no decision, so a snapshot
can be taken automatically at any point. The *reasons* for the yes/no
decision can be set with the other categories. But, it was only a
demonstration, and when/if we turn on the validation feature, that whole
schema is likely to go to heck(TM) anyway.
* Comments given with the validation seem to be
discarded; at least I
cannot find them back
As said above, I didn't keep it up-to-date, and AFAIK noone else did
either. I'm too busy with other things to invest large amounts of time
in that right now, too :-(
* Would it not be better to change the validation
statistics. Those
percentages and numbers seem to be more confusing than helping,
whereas getting the separate validations (instead of just the totals)
would be interesting. I am thinking of something like (I hope it looks
a bit ok in everyone's favorite font...)
version blabla | validation 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| validation 2 | 3 | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| validation 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| average | 3.7 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.7|
Of course that can be done, but it would just hide the percentages and
show lots of detail data instead.
* Nicks of validators are not given; is this on
purpose? I can see
both advantages and disadvantages. Advantage is that one will be less
inclined to give a better judgement because of personal reasons, or to
attack the messenger. Disadvantage is that one cannot check whether a
high or low rating is real or just created by sockpuppets or such.
Originally, I planned to give access to the "detail view" to sysops only
(privacy vs. sockpuppet fighting, as you said). I can't even remember if
I coded that or not. Probably not.
Magnus
P.S.: I forget a lot these days. What's my name again? ;-)