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 writing my college paper" -take for granted the claim this text makes that a living person cheated on his spouse (or worse possibilities" -assume this means WP as a group/the foundation itself makes the claim that *I* cheated on someone" ... and then, when the claim proves to be false, become angry and go after the Foundation? Not necessarily legally, though.... I fear that if they make an assumption "this text is highlighted as high trust, so it can be trusted", and are told that this is the meaning on a help page, we could be liable.
Nathan On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:36 AM, FT2<[email protected]> wrote: > I think there's a terminology issue. > > We cannot refer to this as a "trust" system, however "Wikitrust" brands it. > We just can't. It misleads too many, and implies too much. > > Call it a "text tracing system" or "a gadget to highlight text origins" > instead. It's a lot less glamorous, sounds alot less dramatic, doesn't get > the dollars - but it's got zero capability of misleading. > > FT2 > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:37 PM, James Alexander <[email protected]>wrote: > >> How would the blame maps work with people editing around vandalism? For >> example someone either blanks the page or does extensive vandalism to it >> (especially over the course of a couple days or a couple users). I would >> imagine it would be fairly easy if the bad contributions just got >> rolledback >> but would the old blamemaps still be reinstated if someone went in and >> manually copy/pasted the old version (or something very close) in or would >> the system count it as a new contribution? >> >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:12 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > 2009/8/31 David Goodman <[email protected]>: >> > >> > > I am a little concerned that we are adopting a metric into our >> > > interface without adequate testing. >> > >> > >> > It appears we're not and Wired completely jumped the gun. There is no >> > timeframe for release of this thing even as an optional extra. >> > >> > >> > - d. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WikiEN-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> James Alexander >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jamesofur >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
