[WikiEN-l] Contest and quality

[Phil Sandifer]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:44 AM, maru dubshinki wrote:

>
> Impossible. Featured articles are determined by FAC, which is as
> ridden or more so with politics as AFD, DRV, and other such eyesores:
> standards are constantly shifting and unevenly applied. Good Articles
> itself has turned into a mockery of FAC.
>
> Most Featured Articles are great articles, but most great articles  
> are not FAs.

The usual solution in these cases would be to create a lightweight,  
no bureaucracy version, akin to PROD. Article rating was a nice  
technical solution that had a few major bugs like not actually  
working, but what if we strayed away from version rating and had  
general ratings on articles? i.e. instead of the database nightmare  
just let articles all have 1-5 ratings, with some option like "if ten  
people vote to clear ratings, the ratings are reset" so as to not  
have articles sandbagged with ratings of ancient versions?

-Phil