User:Itayb/Randopedia

A suggestion for introducing randomization into Wikipedia, to help deal with certain problematic aspects of Wikipedia. Comments are welcome.

Goals:
 * 1) Reduce conflicts of interest.
 * 2) Prevent cabals.
 * 3) Reduce vandalism and contain it.
 * 4) Systematically reward good editors and enable them easier editing.
 * 5) Encourage editors to substantially improve the quality of articles.

Features:
 * 1) Every user has to register.
 * 2) Every user gets a personal userpage, which he/she can freely edit.
 * 3) No one can edit a user's userpage but the user.
 * 4) All users get full access to all articles' talk pages.
 * 5) A user cannot in general edit any other page.
 * 6) A user can indicate on his/her userpage that he/she is available.
 * 7) The system offers each available user a random article.
 * 8) A user can reject an offer. In this case, he/she is offered another, random page. A user can consecutively reject only so many offers before he/she gets blocked (i.e. doesn' get any offers) for some fixed period of time.
 * 9) If a user accepts an offer, he is granted permission to edit this page, and only this page.
 * 10) While editing a page, the system marks the user as unavailable, and he/she cannot change this status until he/she is done with the article.
 * 11) A user is granted the permission to edit any page for a fixed amount of time, after which his/her permissions to edit this page expires.
 * 12) It is quite possible that several editors be granted simultaneous access to the same page.
 * 13) Content disputes among editors of the same page are resolved by a democratic simple majority vote.
 * 14) Editors can obtain and lose ranks. A new editor begins with a single rank.
 * 15) More ranks means more privileges. For instance, an available editor who has many ranks is offered several articles in a single offer, which he/she can then edit simultaneously. He/she gets to edit them for a longer duration of time. His/her vote counts more. He/She gets to create new articles.
 * 16) A qualified user can create a new empty article with a new title. They get to explain what the article ought to be about, why it is notable, and to suggest a table of contents and bibliography. These comments end up in the article's talk page. The creator of an article gets no access to the actual article.
 * 17) An editor loses ranks by committing acts of vandalism, by violating policy and by having articles they had created voted for deletion by the community.
 * 18) When an editor loses all his/her ranks, they get automatically blocked by the system for a fixed duration of time. When the block expires, they start over with a single rank. The duration of time of a block gets exponentially longer with each block.
 * 19) Rules matter! There is no such rule as "Ignore all rules". Rules must be strictly obeyed at all times.
 * 20) An editor gains a rank by getting his/her current article promoted.
 * 21) An editorial team can suggest the current version of an article for promotion. If an article gets promoted, all its current editors receive another rank. If the suggestion is rejected, a rank is removed from each of the current editors.
 * 22) When an article is suggested for promotion, a large, random group of editors is sent an invitation to vote for this article's promotion. Each article has a current grade and the criteria for promotion from one grade to the next higher grade are set in policy.
 * 23) The identity of editors is by default concealed. When an editor gets access to an article he/she is assigned a random, human-recognizable nickname which is unique in the history of that article. Whenever he/she signs his/her messages with the four-tilda-sig in the associated talk-page, and whenever he/she edits the main page this nickname is what gets printed/recorded in the history listing, respectively.