Hi Sanjaya --- I'm keen to hear your thoughts how/why you think a start system will help WE achieve its aims?
Do you see a star system as a mechanism to motivate WikiEducators? or Is this a mechanism to express a collective view on the quality of a resource? Interestingly -- we host our main list on Google Groups which has a star rating system for posts -- but I've noticed that its not widely used by the community. That said, I'm sure that there are innovative ways in which a star system could be implemented through a smart template solution. My personal view is that any system that attempts to make any kind of value judgement on popularity and/or quality must be community driven. I'm also wondering about the impact a start system might have on newbies in the community. Lets say I'm a new teacher grappling with the wiki syntax, structure, pedagogy etc -- and someone comes along and gives me a poor rating. Would that motivate me to do better or discourage me from continuing. That said, I do think we can learn from the community incentives in the WMF projects. For example, Wikipedia have a featured article system where the community nominate articles for the status of a feature article. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles There is a rigorous process regarding the criteria for featured articles as well as community discussion on whether a nomination will qualify. Once an article has attained the status of featured article -- as star is inserted on the page. Perhaps we should think about an equivalent or similar process in WE? I guess the place to start would be to think about the criteria we would use. On the quality issue -- I've been doing a little thinking about the appropriateness of implementing the Flagged Revisions extension. See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevisions Its a pretty sophisticated tool where assigned reviewers take responsibility for expressing a value judgement on predefined criteria. What I like about the system is that the page view can be set to display the latest reviewed version -- without restricting the ability to draft edit and add value to existing materials. Perhaps this is something we should think about. Cheers Wayne On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 04:06 -0700, Missan wrote: > Dear All, > Can we think of developing an interactive five point/star rating > system for the pages on the WikiEducator. Depending on user hit and > user feedback, the star system should dyanamically change. I am not > sure such a system is possible in WIkiEd or not. But, I think some > rating system is there in Wikipedia, but I am not able to understand. > Can anybody help on this? > > with regards, > > Sanjaya Mishra > IGNOU > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
