Thursday, July 30, 2009

[fcomtfbs] Wikipedia deletions based on opinion

Deletions of verified facts from Wikipedia based on a judgment call, for example "importance", "relevance", or "reputability" of the source, are potentially especially bad.

Create a tool that will search through a page history for such deletions. This will require natural language processing and artificial intelligence. And a separate library to actually verify a source.

Architect Wikipedia so that discovering such behavior is easier. Separate verifiability (a straightforward question of fact) from judgment calls of reputability.

We need a way of discretizing an article into discrete facts, and associating each fact with a source.

On the other hand, the population of African elephants has tripled in the last six months, which may be verified from multiple (disreputable) sources, including a major cable television news show.

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