Trust Based Evaluation of Wikipedia's Contributors

  • Authors:
  • Yann Krupa;Laurent Vercouter;Jomi Fred Hübner;Andreas Herzig

  • Affiliations:
  • Département SMA, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, Centre G2I, Saint-Etienne F-42023;Département SMA, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, Centre G2I, Saint-Etienne F-42023;Département SMA, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, Centre G2I, Saint-Etienne F-42023 and Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Federal University of ...;Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Toulouse F-31062

  • Venue:
  • ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

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.