Awesome! I posted a long response on my blog -- http://wikip.blogspot.com/2007/07/alright-this-is-most-awesome-thing-i.html
On 7/29/07, Luca de Alfaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All: > > I would like to tell you about a demo we set up, where we color the text of > Wikipedia articles according to a computed value of trust. The demo is > available at http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ > > The trust value of each word of each revision is computed according to the > reputation of the original author of the text, as well as the reputation of > all authors that subsequently revised the text. > > We have uploaded a few hundred pages; for each page, we display the most > recent 50 revisions (we analyzed them all, but we just uploaded the most > recent 50 to the server). > > Of course, there are many other uses of text trust (for example, one could > have the option of viewing a "recent high-trust version" of each page upon > request), but I believe that this coloring gives an intuitive idea of how it > could work. > > I will talk about this at Wikimania, for those of you who will be there. I > am looking forward to Wikimania! > > Details: > > We first analyze the whole English Wikipedia, computing the reputation of > each author at every point in time, so that we can answer questions like > "what was the reputation of author with id 453 at 5:32 pm of March 14, > 2006". The reputation is computed according to the idea of content-driven > reputation. > > For new portions of text, the trust is equal to (a scaling function of) the > reputation of the text author. > Portions of text that were already present in the previous revision can gain > reputation when the page is revised by higher-reputation authors, especially > if those authors perform an edit in proximity of the portion of text. > Portions of text can also lose trust, if low-reputation authors edit in > their proximity. > All the algorithms are still very preliminary, and I must still apply a > rigorous learning approach to optimize the computation. > Please see the demo page for more details. > > All the best, > > Luca de Alfaro > http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~luca > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Ben Yates Wikipedia blog - http://wikip.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
