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

[Carcharoth]

I found an article recently that had a glaring bit of vandalism that
had gone uncorrected for a long time. Does anyone here know if
Wikitrust (or whatever it should be called instead) would have spotted
this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Stevenson&diff=312695887&oldid=302670782

The point here is that this sentence stayed in the article for a very
long time. If that fools people into thinking that it is "OK", then
that is not good. This sort of thing is rare, but if you look through
the history starting from this edit forwards, you will see what
happened there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Stevenson&diff=132398205&oldid=126719712

A long series of vandal edits, and eventually someone only partially reverted.

Carcharoth