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

[Bod Notbod]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:09 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 8/31/2009 11:47:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ft2.wiki at gmail.com writes:
>
>
>>    - WikiTrust might be described as "a way to see how long an edit
>> endured
>>    and how much trust it seems to have"; in most users' hands it'll be
>> "its
>>    colored red/blue so its right/wrong."
>>    - People won't think, they'll assume and rely.>>
>
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>
> Interesting to see this by virtue of repetition in our mirrors.
> And our pseudo-mirrors who *don't* event state that they mirrored us.
> Then after a phrase has been cut from our version due to lack of source,
> it's put back in citing a past mirror who hasn't removed it....
>
> Circular.

I found a Wikimania presentation earlier that showed colour coding of
text according to trustworthiness and also rated contributors on a
similar scale. I can't seem to find it again now though.