[WikiEN-l] Wired: Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

[Nathan Russell]

> WikiTrust itself has been announced and then mentioned on this list
> multiple times; in the absence of quotes in the article from Wikimedia
> Foundation staff members, I'm not 100% convinced that a decision has
> been made to roll it out to all users of the English Wikipedia.

Which is what I meant, sorry.

If I
> remember, there were significant technical issues associated with a
> real-time trust analysis on the entire encyclopedia. Perhaps the
> mentions of "gadgets" were intended to signify that it would be an
> optional gadget available in the preferences. It's a really
> interesting method of looking at the project, I'm in favor of adding
> it as a gadget if a way can be found to make it technically
> manageable.

It would also be useful for catching vandalism interspersed with good
content (or at least telling which sentences to look closely at,
without reading a 30 kb article).

Pakaran