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Wikipedia entries to be colour-coded based on trustworthiness

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NewsBytes
NewsBytes Original post #1
Sep 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM
One of the most common grouses with the Web’s favourite encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, is that the content on it cannot always be trusted. There are quite a few loose statements that have no credible citation to back them up, yet a lot of people rely on the site to conduct research.
 
This problem might soon be seeing a solution as the grey areas of credible content get shades of colours to determine their trustworthiness.
 
WikiLab, a project at the US-based University of California &ndash...

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topgear
topgear #2
Sep 2, 2009 at 5:47 AM
That's a nice move :p