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Wikipedia 2.0, Now With Trust?
USB EVDO writes "The online encyclopedia is set to trial two systems aimed at boosting readers' confidence in its accuracy. Over the past few years, a series of measures aimed at reducing the threat of vandalism and boosting public confidence in Wikipedia have been developed. Last month a project designed independently of Wikipedia, called WikiScanner, allowed people to work out what the motivations behind certain entries might be by revealing which people or organizations the contributions were made by. Meanwhile the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that oversees the online encyclopedia, now says it is poised to trial a host of new trust-based capabilities."
Here is Wikipedia's page on Flagged revisions
Extension:FlaggedRevs on mediawiki.org
also, wikimedia does already have OpenID support.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
Instead of using a link to a sub-optimal blog site, how about a link to the actual New Scientist article.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Stable and unstable versions exist on the German wikipedia, but the English (main) Wikipedia users and admins have been very resistant to the idea.
Dude, where's my packet?
Unlike many encyclopedias, Wikipedia actually requires editors cite sources. All added information is required to have a source, otherwise someone else will come by and add a [citation needed] notice. You can check out all the articles that don't have sources cited.
Try clicking on the numbers next to each sentence next time you stop by.
Wonder what the public key field is for?
This is incorrect. Stable versions do not yet exist on the German Wikipedia.