Wikipedia 2.0, Now With Trust?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 23, 2007 @02:29AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

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."

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Flagged revisions on Wikipedia / mediawiki.org by saibot834 · 2007-09-23 02:51 · Score: 4, Informative

Here is Wikipedia's page on Flagged revisions
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Link to the actual New Scientist article by sczimme · 2007-09-23 02:57 · Score: 5, Informative

Instead of using a link to a sub-optimal blog site, how about a link to the actual New Scientist article.

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