The scaling problem is classically hairy. A rating system should help; it's
a similar response to the one eBay had as it grew from a tiny community to
a mob (on the way to becoming a visible slice of the universe) -- feedback.
Feedback itself had to be conditioned after a while, too, and I imagine the
rating system will need continuous re-evaluation. Likewise, this experiment
makes sense, to see if slight tweaks to the essentially no-holds-barred
editing-without-accountability paradigm can help produce the best
encyclopedia; I'm skeptical as to whether slight tweaks can suffice; it only
takes a tiny number of jerks to render such an environment too painful to
use. See "usenet".
jpgordon
On 12/5/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Delirium wrote:
So, more interesting would be to address the
fundamental problem---that
is, mark revisions that have been reviewed by [n] people.
Totally. I think we'll be experimenting a lot in coming months,
especially in en where it seems to me that a lot of time-honored
processes are starting to be overwhelmed by sheer volume.
--Jimbo
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