[WikiEN-l] Quality tags

Wed Sep 7 21:21:41 UTC 2005

Spot on. 

But theres also real issue of ranking particular
edits, relative to others. IAUI, this is a lot more
processor and data intensive - a lot of metadata can
be applied or drawn from each article. 

SV

--- charles matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> Ed Poor wrote
> 
> >*We* must decide that we want some means of
> assuring readers that they
> are getting reliable information.
> 
> Simple - just protect decent, informative versions
> of pages.  True, this
> turns a wiki into a standard static web site; but
> hey, people will be
> mightily assured.
> 
> I'm sort of amazed that the category system has't
> already been adapted to
> give some sort of 'marks out of 10' to articles.  If
> there were real
> community pressure to rate articles, I think that
> might have happened
> already.  What I see is only the skeleton of such as
> system: stub tags,
> featured-article status, and the reprehensible use
> of POV tags as comment
> rather than trying to sort out disputes.
> 
> Trying to think laterally for the moment.  If
> articles were rated on a scale
> of 1 to 100 for excellence, the lower rungs of the
> ladder would correspond
> to poor articles, of various types: stubby, badly
> written, failing when
> judged by policy (NPOV, NOR, CYS), non-encyclopedic.
>  This could be the
> basis of an automated clean-up/deletion mechanism
> also, but would need
> perhaps one other ingredient (to make a kind of 2-d
> plot).  What should that
> be?
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
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