Their Wikimania slides have an interesting example, where a really
problematic edit becomes gradually accepted simply from being there
and other people editing the article but not fixing it.
On 8/6/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/6/07, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
1) A "blame map". Some might prefer to
call it a "credit map" to be more
polite. This is a data structure that lets you see who is responsible
for what text. It can be updated on every edit. Having one stored in
MediaWiki will enable all sorts of applications. Apparently it's
old-hat, and not the subject of the present research, but it'll be great
to have an implementation integrated with MediaWiki.
2) A reputation metric. This is a predictor of how long a given user's
edits will stay in an article. It's novel, and it's the main topic of de
Alfaro's research.
These two elements could be used independently in any way we choose.
<snip for clarity>
2. The value of the metric for individual users
is obscured. The only
access to it is via the reputation-coloured article text. The annotated
article text has no usernames attached, and the metric is not displayed
on user pages or the like.
Can you clarify this for me. What is there to prevent me from checking
a particular snippet of text that has been edited by only one person, and
seeing that it is a specific hue, and basing my evaluation of his or her
trust metric on that hue?
To be obscured would it not be necessary to only colour text that has
been edited by multiple editors, thus limiting the usefulness?
<snip>
It's time for us to think about how we want
to use this technology.
There are lots of possibilities beyond the precise design that de Alfaro
proposes. Brainstorm away.
I have not yet changed back to thinking this may not be useful, but I
think we need more information on the limitations and possible
further improvements that can be made to it. Is there a fuller
description of the underlying formula/algorithm somewhere?
--
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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