[WikiEN-l] "Software Weighs Wikipedians' Trustworthiness"

[Tim Starling]

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Can you clarify this for me. What is there to prevent me from checking
> a particular snippet of text that has been edited by only one person, and
> seeing that it is a specific hue, and basing my evaluation of his or her
> trust metric on that hue?
> 
> To be obscured would it not be necessary to only colour text that has
> been edited by multiple editors, thus limiting the usefulness?

It's obscured in the same way that edit counts are obscured, i.e. 
potentially unsuccessfully.

> I have not yet changed back to thinking this may not be useful, but I
> think we need more information on the limitations and possible
> further improvements that can be made to it. Is there a fuller
> description of the underlying formula/algorithm somewhere?

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca/papers/07/wikiwww2007.pdf

-- Tim Starling