Reputation engine will make Wikipedia motley
For several years, researchers from Wiki Lab have been refining and testing the addition of WikiTrust , which can fundamentally change the appearance of Wikipedia. The idea to the genius is simple: highlight the doubtful text fragments in color (yellow, orange, etc.). It will be immediately apparent which text you can trust and which one you don’t. This idea was approved by Jimmy Wales back on Wikimmania 2007, since November 2008, the program has been tested as an extension to MediaWiki, and soon it can be tested on all Wikipedia content (the “trust info” button will appear on each page).
The WikiTrust algorithm calculates the degree of "truthfulness" of each fragment by several parameters, including two main ones: 1) the authority of the author of the fragment; 2) fragment age (more precisely, the number of page views and the number of corrections).
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Each new edit will now be filled with color from bright orange to light yellow, depending on the authority of the author. Coloring will disappear every day and every refinement.
The importance of innovation is hard to overestimate. First, it is a great way to control quality in crowdsourcing projects. Solves the problem of vandalism. Secondly, this is a fundamental change in the image of the project. Readers will now understand that before them is not the truth, carved in stone, but constantly changing content. Accordingly, the problem of excessive trust in Wikipedia, which is criticized by experts and the scientific community, will be solved.
Now the attitude towards Wikipedia will change.
The program WikiTrust can be activated in the very near future on the entire encyclopedia content, wrote Wired . However, the testing start date has not yet been established, as reported by the Wikimedia Foundation in a special appeal to the public after the article was published in Wired. The organization also stressed that in parallel with WikiTrust, thousands of other extensions for MediaWiki are being tested.
If the reputation engine is still introduced into Wikipedia, there will be another positive point. Many authoritative authors - professors, associate professors and others - will receive the desired satisfaction. From now on, their edits cannot be put in one line with the edits of a simple you Pupkin, which is humiliating for qualified specialists. Thus, among the participants of the wiki movement, we can expect the appearance of new, qualified authors who previously disdained to participate in this overly democratic get-together.
The WikiTrust algorithm calculates the degree of "truthfulness" of each fragment by several parameters, including two main ones: 1) the authority of the author of the fragment; 2) fragment age (more precisely, the number of page views and the number of corrections).
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Each new edit will now be filled with color from bright orange to light yellow, depending on the authority of the author. Coloring will disappear every day and every refinement.
The importance of innovation is hard to overestimate. First, it is a great way to control quality in crowdsourcing projects. Solves the problem of vandalism. Secondly, this is a fundamental change in the image of the project. Readers will now understand that before them is not the truth, carved in stone, but constantly changing content. Accordingly, the problem of excessive trust in Wikipedia, which is criticized by experts and the scientific community, will be solved.
Now the attitude towards Wikipedia will change.
The program WikiTrust can be activated in the very near future on the entire encyclopedia content, wrote Wired . However, the testing start date has not yet been established, as reported by the Wikimedia Foundation in a special appeal to the public after the article was published in Wired. The organization also stressed that in parallel with WikiTrust, thousands of other extensions for MediaWiki are being tested.
If the reputation engine is still introduced into Wikipedia, there will be another positive point. Many authoritative authors - professors, associate professors and others - will receive the desired satisfaction. From now on, their edits cannot be put in one line with the edits of a simple you Pupkin, which is humiliating for qualified specialists. Thus, among the participants of the wiki movement, we can expect the appearance of new, qualified authors who previously disdained to participate in this overly democratic get-together.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/68444/
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