matthewkenny.com » Wikipedia http://www.matthewkenny.com Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:10:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc All a matter of trust http://www.matthewkenny.com/2007/08/all-a-matter-of-trust/ http://www.matthewkenny.com/2007/08/all-a-matter-of-trust/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:49:45 +0000 Matthew Kenny http://www.matthewkenny.com/2007/08/31/all-a-matter-of-trust/ Some clever researchers at UCSC have come up with a handy little algorithm that hilights the most trusted passages in a Wikipedia article based upon the contributor’s “reputation”, which is calculated by the algorithm using the amount of time that said user’s contributions remain on an article.

Not a new idea by any means, in terms of the way it works, although the metric is a good one.  I’d like to see how this copes with a full copy of Wikipedia.  It would be interesting to say the least.

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