Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/

by Alex3917 • 17 years ago

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Alex39174• 17 years ago

Meh I love how I got ignored for proposing basically the same thing five years ago:

http://bit.ly/QJFb0

btn• 17 years ago

How is your idea "basically the same thing"?

Your idea seems to boil down to the calculation of a edits/views metric that supposedly implies something about the quality of the entire article. WikiTrust tracks the edits relating to each word, and the edits of the authors making those edits to determine the trust of that text.

Alex39174• 17 years ago

If my proposal had been discussed in 2004 then the consensus might have been that the specific implementation that works best is the algorithm they are putting in place today. That's fine.

The point was that I proposed that we had the same problem (and opportunity) in 2004 and came up with the same general approach, drawing on the same set of resources, and no one took me up on my offer to discuss it.

mjgoins• 17 years ago

Our brains already do this for us. It's called the bullshit detector (technical term).

Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

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