Archive for February 2009
How to determine is an Wikipedia article trustworthy
I have red and I have tested a new tool called WikiDashboard (WikiDashboard.Parc.com) which uses the live feed of English Wikipedia and presents a summary about the editors and what amount of information in percents they have wrote in a particular English Wikipedia article. The tool and the idea based on how people collaborate is awesome.
I have a single appeal to add the functionality enabling to mark a piece of a wiki page and query who is the author of it and since when is the current revision of the marked content. I was always dreaming for a tool to synthesize the revision history of a marked piece of a document, but this is still a complicated task in general. Wikipedia content is filled not only with characters in general, but with tags (i.e. <ref></ref> for citing Internet or other resource as a used source) and other special formatting markers, examining their behavior through the revisions is an important base of determining how to present the changes (differences) in the revisions.
