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Daniel Mietchen
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« on: September 30, 2008, 09:45:03 AM »

I recently took another look at http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/WikiTrust and think it could be helpful at CZ in several ways, though I have no idea whether it needs to be adjusted to work with subpages. Specifically, it helps to:
*provide some measure of trust to non-approved articles (could become valuable for controversial topics, as it highlights what editors agree upon);
*provide a measure of trust into the edits by an author (beyond real-world credentials);
*find out who wrote which word in any given article (a feature I always wanted, as it may sometimes be easier to ask that person rather than musing about her reasons for that particular phrasing).

As WikiTrust comes in two major flavours (one for real-time use, one for use on a dump), I would suggest to take a look at the second one first and see whether this is helpful.  What do you think?
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Tom Morris
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« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2008, 06:20:45 AM »

Oh man, this sounds pretty cool. The bit about being able to see who wrote what is cool. Most version control systems have that - "git blame" for instance. I've even seen plugins for text editors that let you find some code, hit a command and have it open up a message to that person so you can... be professional to them.
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