tony curzon price's Bookmarks tagged knowledge → View Popular

You are here: Diigo Home > tony curzon price's Bookmarks

Expand All 1 - 5 of 5

1Expand

Wikipedia: What Is It Good For? - Mises Institute

Tags: hayek, knowledge, trust, wiki on 2007-09-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.mises.org

4Expand

Wikipedia 2.0, with added trust

Tags: knowledge, macarthur, trust, wiki on 2007-09-23 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.tmcnet.com

In the new version, only edits made by a separate class of "trusted" users will be instantly implemented.

To earn this trusted status, users will have to show some commitment to Wikipedia, by making 30 edits in 30 days, say. Other users will have to wait until a trusted editor has given the article a brief look, enough to confirm that the edit is not vandalism, before their changes can be viewed by readers.
It allows select groups of editors, probably associated with specific subject areas, to vote on whether an article should be flagged as high quality. Readers would still see the latest version of an article by default, but a link to a high-quality version, if it exists, would also be available.
Contributors whose edits tend to remain in place are awarded high trust ratings; those whose changes are quickly altered get a low score. The rationale is that if a change is useful and accurate, it is likely to remain intact during subsequent edits, but if it is inaccurate or malicious, it is likely to be changed. Therefore, users who make long-lasting edits are likely to be trustworthy. New users automatically start with a low rating.
De Alfaro has shown that the software's ratings correlate with human judgements. Using data from the Italian Wikipedia, his software assigned trust ratings to editors based on the persistence of past contributions, and then asked volunteers to rate edits by those editors. Edits made by editors with ratings in the bottom 20 per cent were up to six times more likely to be judged as bad than those with higher ratings.