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New tool rates Wikipedia trustworthiness
07 September 2007
Posted by Fiona Campbell-HowesTech gossip-blog Valleywag reports on a new tool that rates the trustworthiness of Wikipedia entries down to the level of individual words and phrases.
The University of California at Santa Cruz's Wiki Lab has developed the Wikipedia trust coloring tool, which monitors which words and phrases are changed most frequently, and highlights them in various fetching shades of orange.
The more times a word or phrase is changed, goes the thinking, the more contentious it is, and therefore the more likely it is to be biased. Statements that have never been altered display normally, instantly highlighting the most stable - and therefore most trustworthy - content on the site.
# posted by Fiona Campbell-Howes at 3:03 PM 
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