[Wikipedia-l] Article validation: allow IP ratings for the raw data phase

[Yann Forget]

Hi,

Le Sunday 22 May 2005 17:05, Magnus Manske a écrit :
> David Gerard schrieb:
> > I suggest that we allow ratings by anonymous users (IP numbers), at least
> > in 1.5.
> >
> > Reasons for this:
> >
> > * we've always worked by leaving things as open as possible and only
> >   restricting as needed;
> >
> > * we're explicitly not using the data for anything important yet, so if
> > ten thousand rating spammers put [[Image:Autofellatio.jpg]] top marks for
> > everything, it won't actually affect anything;
> >
> > * the raw data will be of great interest to people, and as wide as
> > possible is good. (I can see the academics studying Wikipedia slavering
> > for the ratings data tarball ;-)
>
> Two reasons against this:
>
> * Later, we will allow only logged-in users to rate articles, right?
> Otherwise, we'll lose a great part of the perceived reliability
> improvement, IMHO. But how can we really set up this system if the data
> we use as a foundation for the decision is based on anon entries as well?

I think it better if only logged in users can validate articles.
But well it depend what we want to do with this feature: selecting articles 
for an offline publication or studying psychology and sociology of Wikipedia 
readers ?
We have a precedent: only logged in users can upload images.

> * Currently, I store only user IDs with the ratings. Since anons don't
> have user IDs, I'd have to change the SQL table for that, in addition to
> "just" some code, which means work for me ;-)
>
> Magnus

Yann
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