This entry was posted on 08-31-2007 and is filed under uncategorized.
From: Slashdot: "Researchers at UCSC developed a
tool that measures the trustworthiness of each Wikipedia page. Roughly speaking, the algorithm analyzes the entire 7-year user-editing-history and utilizes the longevity of the content to learn which contributors are the most reliable: If your contribution lasts, you gain 'reputation,' whereas if it's edited out, your reputation falls."
TrustworthinessThis is good for Wikipedia. Another case of its evolving into a source. Seamless integration will be needed. Wikipedia itself might be able to add it, and if it doesn't, would they concede some value to someone else? For instance, a Firefox add-on made by a for profit entity. Wikipedia tracks your edits and it's interesting to ponder the possibilities, not all of them good. What can be learned about a person from their edits? I'd also be interested in my own Trustworthiness score. What other types of scores can we think of? Perhaps how often they vote on articles for deletion?
