Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Hi all
Most of you probably have heard of WikiTrust [1], a tool that colors parts of MediaWiki pages based upon a calculated trust value. The demo [2] is quite impressive. I think this would especially help us to spot "subtle" vandalism more easily.
But WikiTrust could also solve another problem that has been coming time and time again, and has been discussed again recently in the German community: how to determine the main authors of an article, and how to find out who put a specific statement into an article.
de Alfaro deliberately left that feature out of the demo that he showed me in 2007, I don't know if it's been added since. I'd rather see an annotation feature showing author names than reputation colouring. The reputation metric is the novel part of de Alfaro's work, hence his emphasis on it. But I think author annotation is a more serious and useful application for the software.
Someone might have to write a user interface for it.
-- Tim Starling