[Wikipedia-l] Study on Interfaces to Improving Wikipedia Quality

[michael west]

2008/11/19 <avani at cs.umn.edu>

>
> Dear All,
>
> My name is Avanidhar Chandrasekaran
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Avanidhar).
>
> I work with GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
> As part of my research, I am involved in analyzing the usefulness and
> Necessity of author reputation in Wikipedia.
>
> In lieu of this, I have simulated an Interface to color words in an article
> based on their Age.
>
> Being experienced contributors to Wikipedia, I invite you to participate in
> this study, which involves the following.
>
> 1. Please visit the following Instances of wikipedia and evaluate the
> interface components which have been incorporated into each of them. Each
> of these use their own algorithm to color text.
>
> a) The Wikitrust project
>
>   http://wiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/index.php/Main_Page
>
> b) The Wiki-reputation project at Grouplens research
>
>   http://wiki-reputation.cs.umn.edu/index.php/Main_Page
>
> 2) Once you have evaluated the two interfaces, kindly complete this survey
> on Wikipedia quality
>
>  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hagN5S1JZHxH6pF9SmXkkA_3d_3d
>
>
> We hope to get your valuable feedback on these interfaces and how Wikipedia
> article quality can be improved.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Avanidhar Chandrasekaran,
>
> GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota
>

Quite interesting - the "age of words" color coding might be useful in
detecting obtuse type vandalism.

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