[Wikipedia-l] Re: The "Casio Effect"

Wed Sep 4 03:22:13 UTC 2002

>I should also point out that "attaching an uneditable review" is
>doable right now--all one has to do is put an external link on the
>talk page.

I like the uneditable review idea; it's simple enough so that it could
actually work. I wouldn't put the links on talk though: nobody reads
old talk pages, and the reviews wouldn't be firmly associated with
individual versions of an article.

A review of an article version should show up as a link on the History
page, next to the reviewed version. That link could point either to a
wiki page only editable by the reviewer, or to an external web page,
whatever the reviewer prefers. It would also have a link to the
reviewer's user page, where they could convince us of their
brilliance, and where one would hopefully also find an automatic "this
person's reviews" link. Reviewer status should probably be by
invitation only.

With a bit of luck, some of these reviewers might end up as
Wikipedians in this evil scheme.

Axel