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Trust Based Evaluation of Wikipedia’s Contributors

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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia on which anybody can change its content. Some users, self-proclaimed “patrollers”, regularly check recent changes in order to delete or correct those which are ruining articles integrity. The huge quantity of updates leads some articles to remain polluted a certain time before being corrected. In this work, we show how a multiagent trust model can help patrollers in their task of controlling the Wikipedia. To direct the patrollers verification towards suspicious contributors, our work relies on a formalisation of Castelfranchi & Falcone’s social trust theory to assist them by representing their trust model in a cognitive way.

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Krupa, Y., Vercouter, L., Hübner, J.F., Herzig, A. (2009). Trust Based Evaluation of Wikipedia’s Contributors. In: Aldewereld, H., Dignum, V., Picard, G. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World X. ESAW 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5_13

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