[WikiEN-l] News.com: Teen's warning on the gospel of Wikipedia

[Stephen Bain]

On 8/21/06, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Of course in theory it works perfectly like that. However, if a "fact"
> was included in a version a year ago how easy is it to figure out who
> put it in to go and ask them for verification? There is no automatic
> mechanism for "blaming" any one user for any word in an article, which
> means it is a possible, but totally manual process.

Unless you have the IBM History Flow app. It's downloadable from IBM:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/historyflow

You can import data from a database dump, if you have access to one,
or the program will get the data from the wiki itself. The last I
heard, Special:Export was limited to showing 100 revisions, but this
seems to have changed now.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com