Udhay, http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
> I'd be especially interested > in comments from Vip and Rishab. Do you mind if I chip in? I think any automated device to "measure" reputation, reliabilty or "trust" is dangerously stupid. It would be so anyhow. To make things worse, the criteria in this case are such as to "reward" behaviors that are unrelated to quality (they could easily do the opposite.) Another messy mistake in Wikipedia is somethig called a "GDFL licence" which is based on software concepts unfit for writing, art etcetera. It's causing a number of ridiculous problems. I am generally on the side of opensource, I like Wikipedia and I often find it quite useful. I understand that an "open" encyclopedia can contain nonsense, but it happens with all sorts of sources (Sturgeon's Law?) That is *not*, imho, the problem that we are discussing. The issue here, as I see it, is that technobureaucrats can mess things up by enforcing stupid "rules" and automatic nonsensical definitions. Cheers, Giancarlo
