As some of you might remember, we have been working on author reputation and text trust systems for wikis; some of you may have seen our demo at WikiMania 2007, or the on-line demo http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
Since then, we have been busy at work to build a system that can be deployed on any wiki, and display the text trust information. And we finally made it!
We are pleased to announce the release of WikiTrust version 2!
With it, you can compute author reputation and text trust of your wikis in real-time, as edits to the wiki are made, and you can display text trust via a new "trust" tab. The tool can be installed as a MediaWiki extension, and is released open-source, under the BSD license; the project page is http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust
WikiTrust can be deployed both on new, and on existing, wikis. WikiTrust stores author reputation and text trust in additional database tables. If deployed on an existing wiki, WikiTrust first computes the reputation and trust information for the current wiki content, and then processes new edits as they are made. The computation is scalable, parallel, and fault-tolerant, in the sense that WikiTrust adaptively fills in missing trust or reputation information.
On my MacBook, running under Ubuntu in vmware, WikiTrust can analize some 10-20 revisions / second of a wiki; so with a little patience, unless your wiki is truly huge, you can just deploy it and wait a bit. Go to http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust for more information and for the code!
Feedback, comments, etc are much appreciated!
Luca de Alfaro (with Ian Pye and Bo Adler)
Luca de Alfaro wrote:
On my MacBook, running under Ubuntu in vmware, WikiTrust can analize some 10-20 revisions / second of a wiki; so with a little patience, unless your wiki is truly huge, you can just deploy it and wait a bit.
This is wikien-l. If our wiki is not "truly huge", what is?
The English Wikipedia is truly huge of course :-) So if they wanted to deploy the trust tab on the English Wikipedia, they would need to either start the trust analysis, and sit back and relax for 2-3 weeks (I have no idea of how powerful the db servers and the other servers are at the Foundation), or prime the computation with pre-computed text trust data we will compute with a cluster at UCSC. In any case, if the analysis is interrupted, it can be restarted at any time. I guess there are many smaller projects for which the "sit back and relax" approach is the best one!
I was sending this message to try to get some feedback on the interest level in the project, on possible wikis that may be interested in having a trust tab... At Wikimania 07, where I presented a (static) demo, there seemed to be quite a bit of interest in having trust information (note that the trust tab could also be renamed to something less controvertial such as "changes"). I am essentially wondering whether the interest is still there. If there is interest in deploying this on test wikis, or on the toolserver version of the English wikipedia, or on some other wikipedia, this is all feasible.
Luca
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:28 AM, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
Luca de Alfaro wrote:
On my MacBook, running under Ubuntu in vmware, WikiTrust can analize some 10-20 revisions / second of a wiki; so with a little patience, unless your wiki is truly huge, you can just deploy it and wait a bit.
This is wikien-l. If our wiki is not "truly huge", what is?
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Well, I look foward to trying it.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:28 AM, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
Luca de Alfaro wrote:
On my MacBook, running under Ubuntu in vmware, WikiTrust can analize some 10-20 revisions / second of a wiki; so with a little patience, unless your wiki is truly huge, you can just deploy it and wait a bit.
This is wikien-l. If our wiki is not "truly huge", what is?
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