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

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:44 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/15 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>:
>> David Gerard wrote:
>
>>> Just ignoring the top and bottom 10% of ratings can do wonders for
>>> this sort of thing, by the way.
>
>> That would work, but may not be necessary if the number of raters is
>> large.  I suspect that the figures with and without truncation will tend
>> to converge. If a rating system of this sort were implemented it should
>> be an easily tested hypothesis.
>
>
> Another idea: make all ratings public information, because they're
> part of the process of working on the encyclopedia so should be
> viewable for transparency.

There is an option in preferences to switch on a gadget to display the
FA/A/GA/B/C/Start/Stub/Unassessed ratings (and the other categories
such as list and so on) on the article page not hidden on the talk
page. But as I said before, that is an editorial rating system, not a
reader rating system.

Carcharoth