In the absence of any actual validation that this measures "trust' or "reliability" or "quality", i am very skeptical it would be highly inappropriate to integrate into our gadgets.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Gray<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/31 Nathan Russell <[email protected]>: >>> WikiTrust itself has been announced and then mentioned on this list >>> multiple times; in the absence of quotes in the article from Wikimedia >>> Foundation staff members, I'm not 100% convinced that a decision has >>> been made to roll it out to all users of the English Wikipedia. >> >> Which is what I meant, sorry. > > The Wired article says it was derived from a UCSC story, which seems > to be the one here: > > http://scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0901/pages/wiki/wiki.html > > "After years of collaboration, WikiMedia bigwigs finally decided in > April 2009 to make WikiTrust available for all registered Wikipedia > users. The launch date for the new gadget has not been set, but de > Alfaro thinks it will go live in September or October. " > > I cannot for the life of me find any reference to this on the > wikitrust website, on the mailing lists, etc - so, I dunno. "available > for" and "Gadget" makes it sound like an additional preferences thing, > which seems plausible - those tend to get installed pretty quietly. > > I've copied this mail to Luca de Alfaro, who's posted here before, and > hopefully he can shed some light on what's actually going on! :-) > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
