[WikiEN-l] Article Feedback - Ramp up to 10% of Articles

[Dario Taraborelli]

On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:11 AM, David Gerard wrote:

> On 14 July 2011 18:01, MuZemike <muzemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> However, you've made a good point there about "gaming the system" and
>> intentionally trying to garner high ratings. For example, one could
>> create a horrid piece of crap article which would have no chance of
>> staying on Wikipedia and canvass his/her buddies to flood said piece of
>> crap with 5.0's across the board. This thing precisely happens from time
>> to time on YouTube. I don't know how this could be prevented, but I
>> acknowledge that even this feedback system, as with all others, are not
>> perfect and comes with systemic flaws.
> 
> 
> There are various ways to mitigate these effects, e.g. cut off the top
> and bottom 10% of ratings when calculating the displayed numbers.
> 
> But the essential problem is [[Goodhart's law]]: once a social or
> economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the
> purpose of conducting policy, then it will lose the information
> content that would qualify it to play such a role.
> 
> So the answer is not to take the ratings *too* seriously for purposes
> of writing the encyclopedia.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
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