[WikiEN-l] "Software Weighs Wikipedians' Trustworthiness"

[David Goodman]

from
Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired Campus blog.
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2278

"software that color-codes Wikipedia entries, identifying those
portions deemed trustworthy and those that might be taken with a grain
of salt.

To determine which passages make the grade, the researchers analyzed
Wikipedia's editing history, tracking material that has remained on
the site for a long time and edits that have been quickly overruled. A
Wikipedian with a distinguished record of unchanged edits is declared
trustworthy, and his or her contributions are left untouched on the
Santa Cruz team's color-coded pages. But a contributor whose posts
have frequently been changed or deleted is considered suspect, and his
or her content is highlighted in orange. (The darker the orange, the
more spurious the content is thought to be.)"

Examples at http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/

Wikimania 2007 talk:
http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/UCSC_Wiki_Lab
action=AttachFile&do=get&target=wikimania07.pdf

by
 Luca de Alfaro
 B. Thomas Adler
 Marco Faella
 Ian Pye
 Caitlin Sadowski

-- 
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.