http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj One Longnow per Human Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:50:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/unreliability/comment-page-1/#comment-45964 No maps for these territories » planning for the future Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:51:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/metasj/unreliability/#comment-45964 [...] A proposal for offering the public validity metrics on the Wikipedia — which needs some clarification, but is an interesting idea. Evaluation is such a subjective process, that the thought of systemizing it brings up theoretical issues akin to sense-making — how and under what circumstances do people get value out of information? This assumes, in other words, some measure of objective truth/value/”goodness” for any particular article (or rather, category, since the individual article level is way too fine-grained at the moment). Furthermore, the details make my head hurt. Wouldn’t this require some measure of editorial review that a) would have to be agreed apon, and b) would have to somehow be maintained over time? [...] [...] A proposal for offering the public validity metrics on the Wikipedia — which needs some clarification, but is an interesting idea. Evaluation is such a subjective process, that the thought of systemizing it brings up theoretical issues akin to sense-making — how and under what circumstances do people get value out of information? This assumes, in other words, some measure of objective truth/value/”goodness” for any particular article (or rather, category, since the individual article level is way too fine-grained at the moment). Furthermore, the details make my head hurt. Wouldn’t this require some measure of editorial review that a) would have to be agreed apon, and b) would have to somehow be maintained over time? [...]

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