Policy:Ranking Articles

The ranking system will allow indexes to be sorted relative to various variables such as most read, highest ranked, most rapidly rising in rank, most disputed, et cetera.

This ranking system will also help readers identify articles to which they want to contribute...or to which they wish to develop a competing proposition.

Different Types of Ranking

We may want to have multiple ranking systems based on ranking of:

1. QA: quality of argument (scale of 0-10, whether or not you agree, is the argument clear and well documented.
2. LA: level of agreement with a proposition (registered users personal rating of agreement: completely disagree=0 up to completely agree=10)
3. most popular article within a index

Anyone can then find a registered user (an expert or thought leader) and identify what their views are based on these classifications.

And we may also want to offer ranking distributions according to:

1. number of readers
2. number of readers rating the article according to each rank in the scale
3. number of self-proclaimed experts rating the article, etc.

From these ratings, users should then be able to see an index of articles, possibly narrowed by category, according to various ranking metrics, such as most read, most edited, most highly rated for quality or agreement of registered users and/or anonymous readers. Conversely, clicking on the 1 to 4 ranking should allow a user see every editor who agrees or disagrees with that article who they can then follow to see how they rank other articles in the category.

Public versus Private Ranking

Our rating extension should further provide registered users to decide whether their rankings are public or private...private rankings being something they can use for their own research/bookmarking/or rating purposes.

For example, there may be both public and private ranking of agreement/disagreement with the proposition on 7 point scale. Public rankings can be searched by name and expertise. Private rankings can be used to view "my own beliefs map" and might also be included in the aggregate ranking scores.

Another ranking score is also available to rank quality of the arguments...regardless of the proposition. This ranks the organization and presentation of the material to help classify pages that need work vs well developed pages that only need updates with new material. The quality of arguments rating will also give authors valuable feedback regarding the presentation of their material.

Public proposition rankings of experts can be used to exactly quantify the distribution of views of experts on controversial issues relative to a specific formulation of a proposition of truth. These experts should have their own biographical page through which they can share their curriculum vitaes, their own viewpoints, and links to the propositions (collaborative thesis and/or personal thesis) to which they ascribe or have contributed. Experts should also be encouraged to share their Mind Map of beliefs with the public.