... and then, when the claim proves to be false,
become angry and go
after the Foundation? Not necessarily legally, though.... I fear
that if they make an assumption "this text is highlighted as high
trust, so it can be trusted", and are told that this is the meaning
on a help page, we could be liable.
Yet another one of my fears.
Emily
On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Nathan Russell wrote:
I think there's a real risk here, to be even more
blunt.
Calling it a trust system risks someone looking at a piece of text and
saying "oh, look, this is trusted, so i can
-rely on this as advice before doing something dangerous/in making a
medical decision/etc"
-use this as my sole source in writing my college paper"
-take for granted the claim this text makes that a living person
cheated on his spouse (or worse possibilities"
-assume this means WP as a group/the foundation itself makes the claim
that *I* cheated on someone"
... and then, when the claim proves to be false, become angry and go
after the Foundation? Not necessarily legally, though.... I fear
that if they make an assumption "this text is highlighted as high
trust, so it can be trusted", and are told that this is the meaning on
a help page, we could be liable.
Nathan
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:36 AM, FT2<ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think there's a terminology issue.
We cannot refer to this as a "trust" system, however "Wikitrust"
brands it.
We just can't. It misleads too many, and implies too much.
Call it a "text tracing system" or "a gadget to highlight text
origins"
instead. It's a lot less glamorous, sounds alot less dramatic,
doesn't get
the dollars - but it's got zero capability of misleading.
FT2
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:37 PM, James Alexander
<jamesofur(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
How would the blame maps work with people editing
around
vandalism? For
example someone either blanks the page or does extensive vandalism
to it
(especially over the course of a couple days or a couple users). I
would
imagine it would be fairly easy if the bad contributions just got
rolledback
but would the old blamemaps still be reinstated if someone went in
and
manually copy/pasted the old version (or something very close) in
or would
the system count it as a new contribution?
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:12 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
2009/8/31 David Goodman
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>om>:
> I am a little concerned that we are adopting a metric into our
> interface without adequate testing.
It appears we're not and Wired completely jumped the gun. There
is no
timeframe for release of this thing even as an optional extra.
- d.
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