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Bug 7730 - Ranking system for wiki content


Summary:	Ranking system for wiki content

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Wikimedia
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	Lowest enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Duplicates:	13573 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2006-10-28 03:46 UTC by Sundaresan
Modified:	2011-05-28 07:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester:	---

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Description Sundaresan 2006-10-28 03:46:37 UTC

I believe there should be a user ranking system for wiki content, wherein 
once the voting reaches a particular threshold, the content can be locked 
forever or future edits will be limited to original author/someone of 
repute or such edits done on that page will be reviewed and submitted. 
WOn't this stop vandalism to an extent?

One should be able to rank the author too.

Comment 1 Schnargel 2006-10-28 04:13:09 UTC

All such ranking systems have difficulties to explain to the user what exactly is to be ranked and to weight the responses. One user might 
give an article a good note for being written in a witty style, the next user might give the same article a bad rating for poor spelling of 
some words, user three gives 10 out of 10 points for the nice pictures, and the fourth gives no points at all because he was searching for 
something different and this article didn't help him at all. And two months later that article got edited a dozen times, looks very different, 
and the ratings still belong to the old version.

Comment 2 Chad H. 2009-12-04 18:35:03 UTC

Marking the original request as WONTFIX. 

While FlaggedRevs can be used (sort of) like what is originally being suggested, the actual premise of "once people have voted enough, it becomes immutable" goes against the "anyone can edit" principle. Of course a 3rd party extension could implement this, but you'd be hard pressed to get a WMF community to approve it.

Comment 3 Chad H. 2009-12-04 19:38:36 UTC

*** Bug 13573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Sundaresan 2011-05-28 07:23:47 UTC

I get to see the rating system now and then in wikipedia. Not sure why this is not a permanent feature.

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