aerik@thesylvans.com (aerik@thesylvans.com) [050605 08:29]:

Is there already work in progress for a rating / voting mechanism for articles - perhaps as part of the validation project? I was thinking that some wikis (particularly wikicity wikis) mike very much like such a feature, and if developed to be configurable, could also be a part of the article validation process. What I'm thinking of is something that gives one the ability to to epinions style ratings, but configurable from wiki to wiki. I poked around Meta for awhile, but didn't find anything conclusive.

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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.

- d.