[WikiEN-l] Contest and quality

[Carl Peterson]

While I'm hovering dangerously close to instruction creep by suggesting it,
I think there should be some sort of mini-review process where instead of
automatically resetting the rating, an admin has to look at it first (i.e.,
there would have to be a reason given for clearing the rating). This would
especially be the case for an FA where it had around 1,000 votes (i.e.,
consensus).

Also, there should either be a minimum threshold for rating (e.g., 10 votes
to be eligible for GA, 20 for FA) or a system where the max rating is
unavailable until x votes (e.g., on a 10-point scale, the max could
increment by .5 on the scale, maxing at 20 votes, with fixed thresholds for
GA and FA). If such a system were not in place, then an article could hit FA
status with only one vote.

Carl


On 9/12/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:44 AM, maru dubshinki wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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
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