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Comment Re:"In other news..." (Score 1) 3

by Decius6i5 on Sunday October 31, 2010 @08:15AM (#34078666) Attached to: Can you use Wikipedia to decide who to vote for?

An overview of the wikitrust algorithms is here. In a nutshell, new text is less likely to be reliable than stuff that has been subjected to a lot of peer review and survived. Couple that with the matter of whether or not your edits tend to get reverted...

Submission + - USB "Dead Drops" (datenform.de) 1

Submitted by Okian Warrior on Saturday October 30, 2010 @03:03PM

Okian Warrior writes: Aram Bartholl is building a series of USB dead drops in NYC.

Billed as "an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space", he has embedded USB sticks as file cache devices throughout NYC.

From the Hackaday link: "Upload what you want, download what you want. They are completely offline which means monitoring gets a lot harder.

Current locations (more to come) include: 87 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (Makerbot), Empire Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo), 235 Bowery, NY (New Museum), Union Square, NY (Subway Station 14th St), and West 21st Street, NY (Eyebeam)

Comment er... (Score 1) 3

by Decius6i5 on Saturday October 30, 2010 @02:31PM (#34074262) Attached to: Can you use Wikipedia to decide who to vote for?

I meant to write "maybe" rather than "made." Could an editor fix?

Submission + - See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia (virgil.gr)

Submitted by

Decius6i5

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @10:13AM

Decius6i5 writes: "Caltech grad student Virgil Griffith has launched a search tool that uncovers whitewashing and other self-interested editing of Wikipedia. Users can generate lists of every edit to Wikipedia which has been made from a particular IP address range. The tool has already uncovered a number of interesting edits, such as one from the corporate offices of Diebold which removed large sections of content critical of their electronic voting machines. A Wired story provides more detail and Threat Level is running a contest to see who can come up with the most interesting Wikipedia spin job. I'll bet Slashdot readers know of some interesting IP address ranges to check."

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