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Title: Wikipedia to begin color coding untrustworthy text Post by: Alex on August 31, 2009, 12:38:34 PM Wikipedia to begin color coding untrustworthy text
Hot on the heels of Wikipedia's decision to begin using editors for certain pages, they've announced another method of attempting to keep things accurate on their website. According to Wired, the organization will begin color coding the text of their entries in orange, to indicate untrustworthiness, based on a couple of factors. The feature will be aptly named "WikiTrust", and will color the text after analyzing the reliability of the author in question, as well as how long the text has been on the entry. Virgil Griffith, a Wikipedia software developer and neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology, said, "They've hit on the fundamentally Darwinian nature of Wikipedia. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/tj8yGqStbMA/wikipedia-to-begin-color-coding-untrustworthy-text |