[Wikiquality-l] Trust highlighting in Wikipedia articles

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The University of Santa Cruz/California has an interesting demo up
> that computes author trust based on whether users' edits are
> kept/improved or reverted. It then highlights passages of the text
> according to the computed reputation of the author who added them:
> 
> http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
> http://enwiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/index.php/Special:Random
> 
> NB, this is still very experimental, but it seems promising.
> 
> Luca de Alfaro, who did most of this work, will also be presenting at Wikimania.

Wow - that is even better than the idea of user-driven trust metrics.  On top of that, it
encourages activity we want to encourage; creating content that lasts and is built on. It also
looks like they might have a better diff algorithm than we do. 

-- mav




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