Jusrt drop a note and I'll post a notice on our signpost.
I think it is valuable as a clue as to whats going on in an article, but
I also believe it will be circumstances where it might give a false
impression of thrustwortyness.
Lets see what people say if they have an example and can see for them
selves! :D
John
Luca de Alfaro skrev:
> I tend to think that this may not be a huge problem... but "the proof
> is in the pudding": our server is now up and running, we are
> experimenting with some wikis, why don't we try to color a dump of the
> Norwegian wikipedia and see how the result looks like? I am sure it
> won't be perfect, and the reasons you cite are the reasons why the
> tool actually never displays people's reputation value (we don't want
> visitors to read too much into it). But perhaps the tool will still
> enable the easy visual detection of recent changes, and unvalidated
> changes, and perhaps contributors will find this useful.
>
> I downloaded the latest dump I could find (June 2008), and I will
> color it right away.
> I am not sure we will install all the extensions required for it to
> look pretty, and images may or may not work, so this will be a purely
> experimental setting (all of these things would work if we colored the
> real Norwegian Wikipedia, it's just that I am not sure I can find the
> time in these days to install all required extensions). Still, it
> will give you an idea.
>
> (I haven't implemented yet the code to bring up to date the trust of
> long-unchanged pages; I will do it).
>
> Luca
>
>
> 2008/8/31 John Erling Blad <
john.erling.blad@jeb.no
> <mailto:
john.erling.blad@jeb.no>>
>
> At no.wp there are now questions about establishing thrust for users
> within small or closed groups where it is no or very little knowledge
> outside the group. Such situations will occur very rarely on
> english, or
> one of the other large wikis, yet it can occur very easily on smaller
> communities. It can although happen on a wiki with a large
> community if
> the given area of knowledge is sufficiently small.
>
> An example is something like tetraploid salmon in fish farming
> (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_farming), where the english
> community
> might be able to check if this is meaningful and parhaps also the
> norwegian community, irish community and chilean community, but what
> about the polish community? Will they figure out the relations? Will a
> editor writing about this gain correct trust? Note that the places are
> known for salmon fish farming, someone in the polish community
> might now
> about this because there are fish farming in Poland - just not
> with salmon.
>
> I believe the system in the mean will produce valuable
> information, but
> it will not be very accurate without additional measures.
>
> John
>
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