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

[Emily Monroe]

>> - it allows us to create blamemaps for history pages, so that you  
>> can quickly see who added a specific piece of text. This is very  
>> interesting for anyone who's ever tried to navigate a long version  
>> history to find out who added something.

I have to admit, I'd find this incredibly useful myself.

> What I'd like would be when colors are shown, if you hover over some  
> text it pops up a hover of the user who wrote it and when it was  
> written (the revision).

I'd also find this useful.

Emily
On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:26 PM, FT2 wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>  
> wrote:
>
>> - it allows us to create blamemaps for history pages, so that you can
>> quickly see who added a specific piece of text. This is very
>> interesting for anyone who's ever tried to navigate a long version
>> history to find out who added something.
>>
>
> Yes. Incredibly useful. What I'd like would be when colors are  
> shown, if you
> hover over some text it pops up a hover of the user who wrote it and  
> when it
> was written (the revision). This would be a bit like the way Google
> Translate pops up the source text. I'd position the popup far left  
> or far
> right of the window though so it doesn't obscure the text and annoy  
> one so
> much (or have positioning be an option).
>
>>
>> - it potentially allows us to come up with an algorithmic "best  
>> recent
>> revision" guess. This is very useful for offline exports.
>>
>
> Makes sense. Also good for anti-vandalism work.
>
>
>
>>
>> The trust coloring is clearly the most controversial part of the
>> technology. However, it's also integral to it, and we think it could
>> be valuable. If we do integrate it, it would likely be initially as a
>> user preference. (And of course no view of the article would have it
>> toggled on by default.) There may also be additional community
>> consultation required.
>>
>
>
> A show/hide button on the screen, with "default status" in  
> preferences,
> please. And maybe an interface issue to consider, having a narrow  
> top bar
> that doesn't scroll, where status, flagged revision etc info can be  
> put that
> will always be visible no matter where you are in the article.
>
> FT2
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