[WikiEN-l] Re: Three levels

Mon Oct 3 14:21:33 UTC 2005

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Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> 
>> On 10/2/05, Daniel P. B. Smith <dpbsmith at verizon.net> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Users browsing the encyclopedia can set a default level of viewing on
>>>   
>>>
>>>> arrival, but bottom level articles are, by default, not included.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Ideological pure-Wiki advocates might suggest that by putting these
>>> article on the bottom level you were preventing people from seeing
>>> them and improving them.
>>>   
>>
>> It's unclear what it means for bottom level articles to be "not
>> included".
>> Not included in search and in random page are obvious*, but there would
>> almost certainly be a link there for anyone who typed in the exact
>> term. We
>> already have a link that says "View X deleted
>> edits<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Brian_Torby>?"
>> For bottom level articles, you'd actually be able to view those edits by
>> clicking on that link (the text of which would probably be rephrased).
>>
> Why not have these levels set by the long proposed article evaluation
> scheme, based on th numbers which that process gives.  That carries no
> deletion implication, but it warns the user that if he views articles
> below a certain threshold he may just be viewing a lot of garbage.
> 

Good idea.

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