[WikiEN-l] Wired: Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

[David Goodman]

In the absence of any actual validation that this measures "trust' or
"reliability" or "quality", i am very skeptical it would be highly
inappropriate to integrate into our gadgets.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Gray<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> 2009/8/31 Nathan Russell <windrunner at gmail.com>:
>>> WikiTrust itself has been announced and then mentioned on this list
>>> multiple times; in the absence of quotes in the article from Wikimedia
>>> Foundation staff members, I'm not 100% convinced that a decision has
>>> been made to roll it out to all users of the English Wikipedia.
>>
>> Which is what I meant, sorry.
>
> The Wired article says it was derived from a UCSC story, which seems
> to be the one here:
>
> http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/pages/wiki/wiki.html
>
> "After years of collaboration, WikiMedia bigwigs finally decided in
> April 2009 to make WikiTrust available for all registered Wikipedia
> users. The launch date for the new gadget has not been set, but de
> Alfaro thinks it will go live in September or October. "
>
> I cannot for the life of me find any reference to this on the
> wikitrust website, on the mailing lists, etc - so, I dunno. "available
> for" and "Gadget" makes it sound like an additional preferences thing,
> which seems plausible - those tend to get installed pretty quietly.
>
> I've copied this mail to Luca de Alfaro, who's posted here before, and
> hopefully he can shed some light on what's actually going on! :-)
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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