Has anyone tried integrating a reputation system with MediaWiki?
So editors get awarded points/feed back for their work?
Any tips or pointers very welcome.
Paul -- Yellowikis is to Yellow Pages, as Wikipedia is to The Encyclopedia Britannica
admin Yellowikis wrote:
Has anyone tried integrating a reputation system with MediaWiki?
I'd also be interested in seeing any prior work in this area; I'm looking to implement an MSDN style content feedback system on my own MediaWiki site. I recognize it's an incredibly tricky issue, and I don't want to go in blind. :)
Thanks, Ben
admin Yellowikis wrote:
Has anyone tried integrating a reputation system with MediaWiki?
It's been talked about on and off, but:
1) They have an impact on the community, and so there needs to be some consensus as to what form they should take. 2) They are notoriously easy to game. It may be possible to design a reasonably robust one, but it's non-trivial, especially if it is also to match whatever constraints (1) proposes. 3) Nobody has actually implemented one in MediaWiki.
-Mark
Delirium wrote:
admin Yellowikis wrote:
Has anyone tried integrating a reputation system with MediaWiki?
It's been talked about on and off, but:
- They have an impact on the community, and so there needs to be some
consensus as to what form they should take. 2) They are notoriously easy to game. It may be possible to design a reasonably robust one, but it's non-trivial, especially if it is also to match whatever constraints (1) proposes. 3) Nobody has actually implemented one in MediaWiki.
I was always under the impression that we don't want such a reputation system because no matter how robust you make it, it is always easier to game than it is to make it robust against that particular attack.
Which is kind of the opposite of wiki philosophy, where undoing vandalism is supposed to be made easier than to vandalise.
Timwi
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