Thread:Talk:Article feedback/IMDB rating: Only consider trustworthy users/reply (12)

The dashboard (deliberately) reports only popular articles. To get reported, the article must have been rated ten times today. A page that doesn't receive at least ten ratings within 24 hours will never appear on the dashboard. Only our most popular pages will ever get reported there.

Because of the demographics (half of Wikipedia's users are under 22, and younger people have more time and interest in rating pages than middle-age people with jobs and families to take care of), we're always going to see a distinct age skew on the dashboard. This means that most articles on the dashboard are going to reflect the interests of younger people, like the latest movie or various entertainment celebrities. This will be the case because more teenagers and young adults will bother to rate the pages, not because these subjects are more important to the whole world.

Which, if you think about it, is really no different from you: Do you want to tell us how old you were at the time of your first edit, which was about a music festival? I'm going to guess that "middle aged" is the wrong answer.

We have to be smart about how we interpret this information, but we don't have to scrap it or restrict it to "perfect" users.