On 1/4/06, Nyenyec N <nyenyec(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Currently several tasks in Wikipedia require
editor's to make a guess
about the trustworthyness of other editors.
Trying to quantify this for purposes other than whether we trust their
vandalism identification abilities for the purpose of RC patrol really
isn't a good idea. I wasn't seriously suggesting a trust metric when
I raised the term, I was just doing blue sky.
Some people are good at working human stuff out. Jayjg seems to have a
knack for identifying socks. Snowspinner seeme to be good at being
one step ahead of whoever is after him this time. I could list many
more people with particular skills and weaknesses.
You can't quantify this stuff, and the minute you did, the system
would suffer multiple breaks.