[Wikipedia-l] Waiting for 1.0

Sat Jul 17 15:07:43 UTC 2004

I believe the KISS principle is applicable here - "keep it simple,
stupid". Article versions should be endorsed by simply clicking a star
beside the revision in the article history, in the same way as Gmail
uses to "star" an email. If we make the selection process to
complicated, we'll never get around to endorsing the tens of thousands
of articles we aim to have in the finished product.

Anyway, the way I think could work is to have each permitted user able
to select only one revision of an article. From that, the total
numbers of users endorsing a particular revision could determine which
revision is selected in the end. I have created a mock screenshot of
how this could work, have a look at:

http://www.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~markryan/pagerank.png

Making the process much more complicated than this would be silly, in
my opinion.

~Mark Ryan