What do you think about web democracy in the form of
online
polls ?
Ick. And double ick. I cannot imagine a voting process doing
anything but institutionalizing mediocrity. The anarchy is precisely
what makes Wikipedia effective at creating content. Why do we want
to cripple what it does best? If we want to create a product that is
clean and well-organized, let's do that too--as a separate, but
releated project, using the Wiki-created content or some subset
thereof. That's the purpose of the FDL, after all--to ensure that
the content will be usable in whatever other products we or someone
else might imagine for it.
What we might want to do is make better facilities for metadata,
including ratings and evaluations of pages by various people, then
allow users to narrow their searching and browsing to pages with
certain evaluations. But let's have each person's evaluation of each
page be recorded individually; if the criterion chosen by a viewer
is "majority approval" or some such, then that's OK for that user;
but others should be able to upgrade or downgrade articles based on
evaluations by individuals or other processes.
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