Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wired: Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

2009-09-01 Thread Nathan Russell
I think there's a real risk here, to be even more blunt. Calling it a trust system risks someone looking at a piece of text and saying oh, look, this is trusted, so i can -rely on this as advice before doing something dangerous/in making a medical decision/etc -use this as my sole source in

Re: [WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

2009-08-30 Thread Nathan Russell
One issue that's bugged me for awhile wrt flagged revisions is whether we'll have a problem with people saying that [[m:The Wrong Version]] is still flagged, and theirs hasn't yet been. Granted, if this becomes an issue, it can be easily enough solved by flagging the current version (and, if

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wired: Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

2009-08-30 Thread Nathan Russell
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Brianbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: What's interesting about WikiTrust is that a trust score is computed for each individual. I wonder if these will be made public, and if so, how they will change the community of editors.  It seems likely that they will not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wired: Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text

2009-08-30 Thread Nathan Russell
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote: Or perhaps it is a reputation score - my memory is fuzzy. Either way, I would like the score to NOT be published. I'd hate to have the community divided over a piece of software. Emily There's also the possibility for