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

[David Goodman]

I am a little concerned that we are adopting a metric into our
interface without adequate testing. Quality or trust in an article is
not a simple numerical matter, much less a rough scale of a few
categories.  it will take a lot of experimentation with it until the
rest of us can decide if its valid enough to be part of our actual
interface--this is a decision that needs to be made by each community,
and I hope it will be made carefully, before we commit to it.

'What people may want to use as an add on is their affair--what we
offer to them as a gadget is something else. I'm not sure we have any
formal method for approving them, but we ought to. The WMF should not
be prescribing it for us.

That this should be done at the same time as the flagged revisions
test is yet another complication.

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



On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:15 PM, FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/31 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
>> > Yes. Incredibly useful. What I'd like would be when colors are shown, if
>> you
>> > hover over some text it pops up a hover of the user who wrote it and when
>> it
>> > was written (the revision).
>>
>> A simple version of that is already implemented. Go to
>>
>> http://wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> and click the "check text" tab to see it, hover over a piece of text,
>> and click it. The hover shows the username, and by clicking it, you'll
>> get a diff. (This may not be the latest code.)
>>
>> > A show/hide button on the screen, with "default status" in preferences,
>> > please. And maybe an interface issue to consider, having a narrow top bar
>> > that doesn't scroll, where status, flagged revision etc info can be put
>> that
>> > will always be visible no matter where you are in the article.
>>
>> There's definitely a need to consolidate the FlaggedRevs revision tag
>> indicator with any WikiTrust UI elements.
>> --
>> Erik Möller
>>  Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>
>
> Added a note on it here: <
> http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Releases/Acai#Mini_toolbar_idea>
>
> FT2
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