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

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 2009/8/31 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
> > 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).
>
> 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.)
>
> > 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.
>
> There's definitely a need to consolidate the FlaggedRevs revision tag
> indicator with any WikiTrust UI elements.
> --
> Erik Möller
>  Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
>


Added a note on it here: <
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Releases/Acai#Mini_toolbar_idea>

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