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

[Amory Meltzer]

Not saying I disagree with you, but with that in mind and looking at the
test example, I'd say that the more useful concept isn't the ability to rate
editors - which I could do without, it's a little too anti-AGF imho - but
its usefulness as a metric of how many people have edited a particular
section.  That would give every sentence some measure of "Wiki-ness," how
much it had been edited mercilessly.  I for one take dislike seeing masses
of paragraphs written by one or two people and would be far more likely to
comb through and copyedit or look for things within that section, no matter
who wrote it, than one with 10 or 20 editors contributing.  That's the part
that would be worthwhile.

~A


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 14:46, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very wary of what people
> will assume it means, and that we're clear it is a tool that needs
> considerable experienced interpretation and is *misleading *without it.
>
> FT2
>