Tim Starling schrieb:
Daniel Kinzler wrote:
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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.
I'm in close contact with de Alfaro (met him at WikiSym), and told him that the authorship aspect is the feature most wanted by Wikipedias. He promised to fast-track implementation, and said he'd be working at it himself this weekend. He *really* wants to get this out there. So i'm confident :)
So, again: what would have to be done to get this live? Do you think it would be best to first run it on a not-so-big Wikipedia (maybe we should ask NL)? How soon could we try it on a test or lab wiki? What'S the procedure, who needs to approve?
-- daniel