[WikiEN-l] WTF Have I Missed?

[Gordon Joly]

At 10:01 +0930 28/8/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
>Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256;
>	protocol="application/pgp-signature";
>	boundary="------------enig9154D8908F4E4A5B0799924A"
>
>Gordon Joly wrote:
>>  At 13:45 -0400 27/8/06, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>>  On 8/27/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  [snip]
>>>>   Anonymous readers of an article will be displayed the most recent
>>>>   revision of that article which has been marked by a trusted user as
>>>   > being free of vandalism.
>>>  [snip]
>>>
>>>  Of course, 'Trusted user' is a complicated issue in and of itself.
>>>
>>
>>
>>  Web of trust is the basis of PGP, surely?
>>
>>
>  > http://www.rubin.ch/pgp/weboftrust.en.html
>>
>>  http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/F.AbdulRahman/docs/pgptrust.html
>>
>  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
>>
>>  Good enough then?
>>
>
>Someone will shoot me for suggesting it, but there's an
>"attack-resistant" trust metric available (primarily used by Advogato).
>We have an article at
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_resistant_trust_metric>.
>
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Had a look at the system, and found it was based on this observation:

<quot>
Levien observed that Google's PageRank algorithm can be understood to 
be an attack resistant trust metric rather similar to that behind 
Advogato.
</quot>

I then recalled Tim Ireland's work on Google Bombs.

http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2005/03/googlebombs_and.asp


And then I wondered how resistant to attack Google PageRank really was.

Any ideas?

Gordo

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