Baskin Engineering in the News: WikiTrust

Associate Professor Luca de Alfaro

Written By Richard Hughey
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Baskin Engineer Luca de Alfaro's WikiTrust system highlights Wikipedia text according to the "trustworthiness" of its authors.

The system, designed by de Alfaro and computer science graduate students Ian Pye and B.Thomas Adler is an extension to Wikipedia.  With the recently-created FireFox extension, page trusthworthiness will be accessed or computed as one browses the online encyclopedia.  

Additional details can be found on the WikiTrust site and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the technology.