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

[Brock Weller]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Brian<Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com
> >wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> Is it not more likely that most long-term editors who have been active
> >> for years have had most of their text mercilessly edited into oblivion
> >> and have very low average "trust" levels? And more recent editors may
> >> have higher trust levels?
> >>
> > With the disclaimer that I haven't read the paper since the 2006
> Wikimania,
> > no, the algorithm is smarter than that. Simply having your edits
> overwritten
> > at some point in the future is not going to detract from the period of
> time
> > that your edit lasted. Additionally, if some but not all of your words
> > persist through rewrites that would contribute to your reputation.
>
> If you merely revert vandalism that removes a persistent piece of
> text, doesn't that unfairly contribute to your reputation as the text
> continues to persist and the algorithm thinks that anyone who added it
> was doing so independently?
>
> Carcharoth
>
> Why would it matter? If you did the right thing, thats all that there is to
care about. This is what im worried about, Wikipedia: The RPG getting even
more ingrained.

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-Brock