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Comment Re:Sheeple (Score 1) 163

by mattdev121 on Monday February 25, 2008 @12:06PM (#22546338) Attached to: An Epidemic of Snooping

The only way to combat this as an individual is to refuse to provide data and provide bad data that screws up the database

I try to, but all I get is blank stares when I say my phone number is 528-555-9823;DROP TABLE custinfo;

Submission + - Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages

Submitted by paleshadows on Thursday August 30, 2007 @11:57AM

paleshadows writes: Researchers at UCSC developed a tool that measures the trustworthiness of each wikipedia page. Roughly speaking, the algorithm analyzes the entire 7-year user-editing-history and utilzes the longevity of the content to learn which contributors are the most reliable: If your contribution lasts, you gain "reputation", whereas if it's edited out, your reputation falls. The trustworthiness of a newly inserted text is a function of the reputation of all its authors, a heuristic that turned out to be successful in identifying poor content. The interested reader can take a look at this demo (random page with white/orange background marking trusted/untrusted text, respectively; note "random page" link at the left for more demo pages), this presentation (pdf), and this paper (pdf).

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