Birgitte SB wrote:
--- Jonathan Leybovich <jleybov(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Yes, a blind-vote citation-checking system in which
>aggregate results
>are captured.
[snip]
I think it might also be useful to use the results
of citation-checking
as a feed into some sort of trust ecology.
Fact-checking is mostly
tedious, unrewarding work, and so the users who have
shown themselves to
be competent and reliable at it are probably going
to be trustworthy or
at least good-faith in other areas as well. This
would of course not be
the only input to a user's "trust rating", but
probably one of the more
significant ones.
I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea!
Birgitte SB
Thank you :) A lot of the work required for such a system I've already
done while beginning to implement my proposal for a central
bibliographic database- [[m:Wikicat]]- and it could just as well be
adopted to your more efficient source/book-driven fact checking regimen.
If some sort of hosting/demo testbed were provided (*ahem*) it would
not take me that long to whip up a basic demo.