On Thursday 18 October 2001 21:20, you wrote:
I generally think this is a good idea. I'm not
sure exactly how the
system should work, but I propose something like adding 1 Karma Point
(KP) for signing up with a username, and one more for every day you
connect to the wikipedia after that (with the same username), and 2 KP
for each day in which you've edited an existing article, and 3 Karma
points for each day you add a new article.
Once you get up to 60 KP, you have basic privileges (Editing the home
page and the like).
Once you have or so 100 KP you can block an IP address, user ID#, or
user alias temporarily (24 hours).
Once you have 200+ KP you can mark an article for deletion. The article
is not deleted for 24 hours, and is clearly displayed as MARKED FOR
DELETION on the recent changes log if you have at least 150 KP. Anybody
with level 1 privileges can then check a "don't delete this" box on the
article, and it will be unmarked for deletion.
It seems more complicated than what JW had in mind, and we can haggle
about the exact nr of points, i suppose. But I like the idea of gradually
gaining more abilities (lets call it that rather than priviliges)
I would recommend that the edit this page link just
not appear unless
you have privileges to edit that page.
If you want to follow Michel Clasquin's suggestion that we also lock
down the pages linked from the main page, I'd recommend that those pages
be locked only for those with 4 or less KP, which means if you're logged
in, and you created an article you can add a link to it from the
appropriate portal page, since you have 1 KP for signing up, and 3 for
adding an article.
Or signed up and done 2 edits
Interesting idea. I've rethought the situation and we may need to
differentiate here between the English and non-english wikipedias. The
portal pages in the non-english wp's are often underdeveloped and may need
less strict rules (for now) like you suggest here. But in the English wp
most of the portals are well-developed and could use a higher level of
protection IMHO.
I would actually recommend that there be a field in
the data base which
assigns the level of restriction on a page, so an administrator (or
potentially anybody with a high enough KP) adjust the threshold for that
page. This would be useful if the there were repeated problems with a
specific portal page.
Excellent idea Of course, I shouldn't be able to raise it to some
ridiculous amount to make it uneditable by anyone (even myself). Perhaps
up to my KP - 1?
One more thing: I would very much like my KP to be between me and the
software, not publically available. We don't need people to start doing
millions of minor edits and putting up a KP counter on their homepages!
Rather start getting new abilities automagically and almost without
noticing it. In fact, really without noticing it in a lot of cases, I'm
sure.
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Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa)
clasqm(a)mweb.co.za/unisa.ac.za
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