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.
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