Software application
Computing reliability WikiTrust computes, for each word, three pieces of information: • The author of the word. • The revision where the word (and the immediately surrounding text) was inserted. By clicking on a word, visitors are sent to the revision where the word originated. • The "trust" of the word, indicated by the word background coloring (orange for "untrusted" text, white for "trusted" text). The trust of the word is computed according to how much the word, and the surrounding text, have been revised by users that WikiTrust considers of "high authority." This project is still in a beta test stage. This may mean that users who edit controversial articles subject to frequent reversion may be found to be less trustworthy than others. Community bias The software has also been described as measuring the amount of consensus in an article. The community of editors collaborate on articles and revise each other until agreement is reached. Users who make edits which are more similar to the final agreement will receive more reputation. The point is also made that consensus revolves around the beliefs of the community, so that the reputation computed is also a reflection of the community. ==See also==