[Wikiquality-l] Implicit vs Explicit metadata

Platonides platonides at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 22:11:53 UTC 2007


Aaron Schulz wrote:
> Article Trust(cons)
> 1) Template and image vandalism is still a problem
> 2) Bot and AWB edits flying through pages automatically make the trust 
> of large chunks of text increase
Bots shouldn't increase the trustiness of the articles they edit.

> Article Trust(cons):
> 1) Again, bots and such
> 2) You cannot edit anything without vouching for it (bad for fixing 
> typos) and the text around it. Either people get afraid to edit or 
> dubious text gets more and more "trusted"
> 3) No one necessarily committed to having fact-checked anything

Due to this maybe you could add a checkbox of "I'm not voting it" (also 
useful for the AWB problem) but
a) It could lead to an abuse of it.
b) You can't apply article trust from outside.




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