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

[Charlotte Webb]

On 8/5/07, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)"

That's nice but for the information to be useful to us they would have
to start naming names.

—C.W.