[Wikipedia-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Article rating topics - speak now!

[David Gerard]

[cc'ing to wikipedia-l]


Joseph Reagle (reagle at mit.edu) [050528 02:56]:
> On Thursday 26 May 2005 08:41, David Gerard wrote:

> > I particularly want to hear from academic researchers interested in
> > Wikipedia - you folk will LOVE this data. What things would you
> > particularly like to see reader/editor ratings of?

> At first blush, it would make sense to rate articles with respect to the 
> criteria of what makes a good article as documented on:
>   [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_a_featured_article
>   [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles
 

Yeah. I went through the first of those and tried to write them as rateable
criteria. All improvements most welcomed.


>  So, it would be really interesting to see what are the most popular 
> stub articles. (This to could be generated automatically from referrer, but 
> can also be used so as to find the most popular poorly rated articles once 
> we have that data.)


Indeed!

"Gather the data but don't do anything with it yet" is an idea that I think
will work very nicely *because* it separates layers properly. If we create
a pile of raw data, people will come up with *all sorts* of interesting
things to do with it. Then maybe we can go back and tweak what we collect.


- d.