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

[Jim Redmond]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:33, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> A simple version of that is already implemented. Go to
>
> http://wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu/index.php/Main_Page
>
> and click the "check text" tab to see it, hover over a piece of text,
> and click it. The hover shows the username, and by clicking it, you'll
> get a diff. (This may not be the latest code.)


According to their Wikimania presentation (hopefully available soon on
Commons), they've also prepared a Firefox add-on, WikiTrust, which adds a
new "trust info" tab to the top of mainspace articles.  The trust info
database is still being populated, though, so the trust info itself may be a
little skewed; at the presentation they estimated that the English Wikipedia
trust info database would be finished in about a month.  (Their existing
algorithm is language-independent, so presumably the add-on will work for
non-English wikis as well.)

The Firefox add-on is still classified as "experimental", but adventurous
persons can still get it at <
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11087>.

-- 
Jim Redmond
jredmond at gmail.com