On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 14:34 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
What I envision for 1.5 is the simplest possible data gathering tool.
Agreed...it's the data that's important, and the presentation can wait. But it would sure be nice to have some sort of general facility for metadata in place, and a better facility for user identification and validation (for example, what would happen if we collected all this data about who likes what articles, and then someone hijacked the user accounts of the reviewers and changed their data?) Some sort of basic signature system would solve that pretty easily.
It should also be pointed out that there's no reason metadata has to be in the Wiki database itself, as long as there's a stable and standard way to /point/ to an article revision (another thing in dire need of standardization). The wiki software should probably try to facilitate entering the data, though.