[WikiEN-l] two-tiered ratings system (Was: To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!)

[Ian Woollard]

On 14/01/2009, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Not everybody pays attention to GA/FA. A public rating system where
> anyone can rate each article on a 0-10 scale might be controversial to
> implement, but on a cumulative basis would give a good statistically
> based valuation of the article.

Possibly not. The experience with these kinds of systems at Amazon for
example shows that interpreting votes is not simple. A lot of people
give consistently high, middle or low votes and there are many
pathologies, averaging them out gives much worse results than you
could expect.

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-Ian Woollard

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