In the absence of any actual validation that this measures "trust' or "reliability" or "quality", i am very skeptical it would be highly inappropriate to integrate into our gadgets.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Grayandrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/8/31 Nathan Russell windrunner@gmail.com:
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.
Which is what I meant, sorry.
The Wired article says it was derived from a UCSC story, which seems to be the one here:
http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/pages/wiki/wiki.html
"After years of collaboration, WikiMedia bigwigs finally decided in April 2009 to make WikiTrust available for all registered Wikipedia users. The launch date for the new gadget has not been set, but de Alfaro thinks it will go live in September or October. "
I cannot for the life of me find any reference to this on the wikitrust website, on the mailing lists, etc - so, I dunno. "available for" and "Gadget" makes it sound like an additional preferences thing, which seems plausible - those tend to get installed pretty quietly.
I've copied this mail to Luca de Alfaro, who's posted here before, and hopefully he can shed some light on what's actually going on! :-)
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