At 10:01 +0930 28/8/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
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Gordon Joly wrote:
At 13:45 -0400 27/8/06, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 8/27/06, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@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.
-- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP
"Advogato performs certification to three different levels: Apprentice, Journeyer, and Master."
So, this system is classfull rather than classless.
Gordo