[Mediawiki-l] WikiTrust v2 released: reputation and trust for wikis in real-time

[Luca de Alfaro]

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
A demo of the project (using an older, batch version of the code) on
the 2007 English Wikipedia is available at
http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/

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 Ubuntu under 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 (the computation happens in the background, of course, so you
don't need to close access to the wiki to perform it).

Feedback, comments, etc are much appreciated!
And of course, let us know if you have questions!

Luca de Alfaro
(with Ian Pye and Bo Adler)