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Wikipedia: Evaluate facts with color-coded pages |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: research, top, wikipedia |
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The UCSC Wiki Lab has come up with an ingenious way to evaluate the reliability of Wikipedia articles: color coding based on specific editorial reputation. Text is colored in various orange-y shades, and if it's close to dark orange? Danger, Will Robinson! So far, the project has only analyzed a couple hundred pages or so, but I think that this is a great way to manage the somewhat tricky problem of Wikipedia credibility. Entries are judged basically by how long they stay up without any changes; this obviously isn't foolproof, but it's a good place to start. UCSC Wiki Lab [via Download Squad] [ Full article ] |
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