Researchers from UCSD and Stanford Visit the Wikimedia Foundation

Fragment of a discussion from Village pump/en

One thing I would like to see some research going into is a karma system.

WikiTrust (automated rating) and Wikigenes (manual rating) as well as Scholarpedia's Scholar Index (manual rating) go in this direction but neither address the issue of expertise. To some degree, Suggestbot (automated after opt-in) captures different kinds of expertise, whereas Flagged revisions, Pending Changes and other forms of user rights control who gets to see and do what.

What if wiki user rights were controlled by something similar to WikiTrust for general editing, and optionally by something akin to SuggestBot for certain types of editing? For scholars, doing this in a way that is compatible with a scholarly author ID system (e.g. the upcoming ORCID) might provide an incentive for wiki contributions.

Another problem that I have not seen a good solution to is that of an ontology that would be applicable consistently across the wide range of topics covered at Wikipedia.

Daniel Mietchen‎01:34, 21 December 2010
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