On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Nathan Russellwindrunner@gmail.com wrote:
I'll just say I'm a bit surprised to be hearing it from Wired first.
Pakaran
WikiTrust itself has been announced and then mentioned on this list multiple times; in the absence of quotes in the article from Wikimedia Foundation staff members, I'm not 100% convinced that a decision has been made to roll it out to all users of the English Wikipedia. If I remember, there were significant technical issues associated with a real-time trust analysis on the entire encyclopedia. Perhaps the mentions of "gadgets" were intended to signify that it would be an optional gadget available in the preferences. It's a really interesting method of looking at the project, I'm in favor of adding it as a gadget if a way can be found to make it technically manageable.
Nathan