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

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Brian<Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

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>> Is it not more likely that most long-term editors who have been active
>> for years have had most of their text mercilessly edited into oblivion
>> and have very low average "trust" levels? And more recent editors may
>> have higher trust levels?
>>
> With the disclaimer that I haven't read the paper since the 2006 Wikimania,
> no, the algorithm is smarter than that. Simply having your edits overwritten
> at some point in the future is not going to detract from the period of time
> that your edit lasted. Additionally, if some but not all of your words
> persist through rewrites that would contribute to your reputation.

If you merely revert vandalism that removes a persistent piece of
text, doesn't that unfairly contribute to your reputation as the text
continues to persist and the algorithm thinks that anyone who added it
was doing so independently?

Carcharoth