[WikiEN-l] Contest and quality

Tue Sep 12 16:03:36 UTC 2006

On 12/09/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> The usual solution in these cases would be to create a lightweight,
> no bureaucracy version, akin to PROD. Article rating was a nice
> technical solution that had a few major bugs like not actually
> working, but what if we strayed away from version rating and had
> general ratings on articles? i.e. instead of the database nightmare
> just let articles all have 1-5 ratings, with some option like "if ten
> people vote to clear ratings, the ratings are reset" so as to not
> have articles sandbagged with ratings of ancient versions?

Write it and get the code past Brion?

Put together an implementation in templates? Presumably to be put on
the talk page.

You might also want to see if the various 1.0 pages have useful ideas.

- d.