On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Aaron Halfaker <half0032(a)umn.edu> wrote:
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 am ready to share this work
with the community. I have designed and implemented a user script
modification that I call HAPPI and am 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
Documentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/HAPPI
Consent form:
http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/HAPPI/consent
-Aaron Halfaker
That's very interesting; I'm trying it right now and it looks like it might be
useful. I have a few questions:
1. I take it the darker the red, the newer the text? It's unclear what the difference
between 'unvetted' and 'trustworthy' is.
2. How sophisticated is the tool? I'm guessing the algorithm is just 'look back in
the history until the text is no longer there'; does it catch when a string is being
deleted & reverted often?
3. At least here, the script overrides my monobook.css customizations (green foreground,
black background); any chance of a fix for that?
--
gwern