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ReadWriteWeb, CA -49 minutes ago
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have built a test extension called WikiTrust that evaluates every word on Wikipedia and highlights ...

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Jon Awbrey
Reputation = Revertation

Wot A Yuck

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Lar
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Fri 27th June 2008, 2:32pm) *


<img alt="" height="1" width="1">WikiTrust Evaluates Wikipedia Text by Author Reputation
ReadWriteWeb, CA -49 minutes ago
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have built a test extension called WikiTrust that evaluates every word on Wikipedia and highlights ...

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I thought this was old news. Am I misremembering that someone did this a while back, maybe this research outfit?
Dzonatas
Consider how well-known tatics like [[WP:BRD misuses]] can be easily done and abused, so can this.
Poetlister
QUOTE(Lar @ Fri 27th June 2008, 7:43pm) *

I thought this was old news. Am I misremembering that someone did this a while back, maybe this research outfit?

We've certainly discussed something similar before now.
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