Software to assist in detecting vandalism and dubious edits
WikiTrust
An example of a WikiTrust screenshot
Developer(s)
UCSC Online Collaboration Lab
Stable release
v2.12
/ November 19, 2008[1]
Preview release
v3.0.pre1
/ August 21, 2009[2]
Written in
PHP, OCaml[3]
Platform
FireFox ,MediaWiki
Type
MediaWiki plug-in
License
BSD, GPL[4]
Website
wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu
WikiTrust was a software product, available as a Firefox Plugin, which aimed to assist editors in detecting vandalism and dubious edits by highlighting the "untrustworthy" text with a yellow or orange background. As of September 2017, the server is offline,[5] but the code is still available for download.
When the UCSC server was active, WikiTrust assessed the credibility of content and author reputation of wiki articles using an automated algorithm. WikiTrust provides a plug-in for servers using the MediaWiki platform, such as Wikipedia. When installed, it was designed to enable users of that website to obtain information about the author, origin, and reliability of that website's wiki text.[5] Content that is stable, based on an analysis of article history, should be displayed in normal black-on-white type, and content that is not stable is highlighted in varying shades of yellow or orange. It was formerly available for several language versions of Wikipedia.
WikiTrust on Wikipedia was undertaken by the Online Collaboration Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in response to a Meta-wiki quality initiative sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation.[5] The project, discussed at Wikimania 2009, was one of a number of quality/rating tools for Wikipedia content that the Wikimedia Foundation was considering.[6] Communications of the ACM (August 2011) had an article on it.[7] WikiTrust is designed for English and German use via the Wiki-Watch pagedetails for Wikipedia articles,[8] in several languages via a Firefox plugin or it can be installed in any MediaWiki configuration.[9] By 2012, WikiTrust appeared to be inactive.[10]
^WikiTrust Release History from the UCSC Online Collaboration Lab
^Browse Files for WikiTrust on GitHub
^Installation Advice Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine from the UCSC Online Collaboration Lab
^WikiTrust on GitHub
^ abcMain Page from the UCSC Online Collaboration Lab
^Wikipedia Considers Coloring Untested Text, an August 31, 2009 article from Information Week
^CACM 54 No. 8 Reputation Systems for Open Collaboration Luca De Alfaro, Ashutosh Kulshreshtha, Ian Pye, B. Thomas Adler pp 81-7
^Wiki-Watch.org: Wiki-Watch.org: a new tool to evaluate the quality of Wikipedia’s articles January 13, 2011.
^WikiTrust: Wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu
^Andrew G. West (25 November 2012). "WikiTrust" Wikipedia:Village pump (technical).
Adler pp 81-7 Wiki-Watch.org: Wiki-Watch.org: a new tool to evaluate the quality of Wikipedia’s articles January 13, 2011. WikiTrust: Wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu...
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