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

[Ian Woollard]

On 31/08/2009, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The trust coloring is clearly the most controversial part of the
> technology. However, it's also integral to it, and we think it could
> be valuable. If we do integrate it, it would likely be initially as a
> user preference. (And of course no view of the article would have it
> toggled on by default.) There may also be additional community
> consultation required.

If I understand this correctly, wouldn't trust coloring inevitably
mark all new users and anonymous IPs as untrustworthy?

So, basically, wouldn't trust coloring be a way of failing to assume
good faith for all anonymous IPs and new users, and institutionalising
this in the software?

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> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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-Ian Woollard

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