I'm sure many of you caught the news
article(http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/) about
Adler and Alfaro's
research(http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1242572.1242608)
in wiki trustability being applied to live Wikipedia. It just so
happens that I have been working on a similar problem from a completely
different direction during my research and I'm ready to share this work
with the community. I have designed and implemented a user script
modification that I call HAPPI and I'm currently running a
non-profit/academic analysis of its usefulness. The script adds a couple
of new controls that will appear over the edit pane. These controls
will allow you to toggle the highlighting of wiki text while you edit
it. If you'd like to give it a try, please see the documentation page
and consent form for more information.
Screenshot:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/HAPPI_example.png
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/HAPPI_example.png>
Documentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/HAPPI
Consent form:
http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/HAPPI/consent
-Aaron Halfaker
Grouplens Research
University of Minnesota
