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

[Emily Monroe]

> (Perhaps the vandal fighting tools could have access to the scores  
> without their users having such access?)

Being a user of vandal fighting tools, I like that idea.

Emily
On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

> 2009/8/31 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
>> Agree - trust scores are likely to be divisive and easily gamed. I  
>> do not
>> think "trust score league tables" will help the project.
>>
>> However as they are also good ways to spot problems and see the  
>> "reliability
>> profile" of an article on review, perhaps some way might be found  
>> to make
>> some of their results available, in some limited manner? Admin only??
>
> Perhaps the trust scores could be released in the form of categories.
> You can't find out an individuals actual score but you can find out if
> they are "untrustworthy", "average" or "trustworthy" (with dividing
> lines that we have spent at least a gigabyte arguing over, of course).
> I can't see any real use for the exact scores - the precision will be
> so low that the rough categories are all you can conclude from them.
>
> I'm not convinced there is sufficient use for even such categories,
> though. They might be useful for prioritising recent changes in vandal
> fighting tools, that's about it. (Perhaps the vandal fighting tools
> could have access to the scores without their users having such
> access?)
>
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