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Wikipedia: Measuring Stability

Explore the concepts of credibility and stability in online information, focusing on measuring credibility through trustworthiness and expertise and assessing stability based on the frequency of edits. Learn about manual and automatic methods of measuring credibility, including the use of metadata. Discover how stability, while not solely determining credibility, impacts the reliability of online content.

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Wikipedia: Measuring Stability

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  1. Wikipedia: Measuring Stability Matthew C. Skinner Sewanee: University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee #0353637

  2. Outline - Introduction -What is C redibility - Measuring Credibility - Stability - Measurement - Concluding Remarks

  3. Introduction: What is Credibility?

  4. Introduction: What is Credibility? 1. The quality, capability, or power to elicit belief. 2. A capacity for belief: a story that strained our credibility. Taken from Dictionary.com

  5. Introduction: What is Credibility? believability, chance, integrity, likelihood, plausibility, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, soundness, tenability, trustworthiness, validity Taken from Dictionary.com

  6. Introduction: What is Credibility? - Not Concrete - Not Defined - Why?

  7. Introduction: What is Credibility? Credibility is a perceived notion. Credibility is a quale.

  8. Introduction: What is Credibility? Credibility is a perceived notion. Credibility is a perceived quale. What is a quale? Each person has their own conceptual framework.

  9. Introduction: What are Qualia? Formal Definition by Daniel Dennett: 1.) ineffable; that is, they cannot be communicated, or apprehended by any other means than direct experience. Pulled from ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

  10. Introduction: What are Qualia? 2.) intrinsic; that is, they are non-relational properties, which do not change depending on the experience's relation to other things. Pulled from ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

  11. Introduction: What are Qualia? 3.) private; that is, all interpersonal comparisons of qualia are systematically impossible. Pulled from ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

  12. Introduction: What are Qualia? 4.) directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness; that is, to experience a quale is to know one experiences a quale, and to know all there is to know about that quale. Pulled from ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

  13. Introduction: What is Credibility? Credibility is a perceived notion. Credibility is a quale of reality How do we make sense of credibility ?

  14. Background: Dividing Credibility Trustworthiness and Expertise – a matter of degree.

  15. Background: Dividing Credibility Trustworthiness and Expertise – a matter of degree. Trustworthiness- how truthful and unbiased a source is.

  16. Background: Dividing Credibility Expertise - the degree of competence and knowledgeability of a source. The the more trustworthy and more expert a source is the more credible it becomes.

  17. Background: Dividing Credibility - Presumed - Reputed - Surface - Experience

  18. Measuring Credibility: Internet • Two methods: • Manual – human assessment • Automatic – computer assisted

  19. Measuring Credibility: Manual - Ease of information verification - Brick and Mortar - Credentials - Personable - Ease of contact

  20. Measuring Credibility: Manual - Site Design - Ease of use - Recent content - Little or no ads; no pop-ups - No typos, or typographical errors

  21. Measuring Credibility: Automatic - Quantify and measure the criteria for a credible website. - Use metadata to determine the overall condition of the document.

  22. Measuring Credibility: Wikipedia - Each article has a history page describing the date, time, and identity of the editor. - The identity is either a username or an IP address.

  23. Measuring Stability: Wikipedia - The frequency of edits help determine an article’s stability. - Stability is how much an article changes over time. - Stability alone does not determine an article’s credibility.

  24. Measuring Stability: Wikipedia Assumption: the more stable an article the more credible the article is.

  25. Measuring Stability: Wikipedia Assumption: the more stable an article the more credible the article is. What is a stable article?

  26. Measuring Stability: Wikipedia • What is a stable article? • - Not a simple answer. • - External Influences • - Temporal

  27. Measuring Stability: Wikipedia Protection: Semi or Full

  28. Measuring Stability: Wikipedia • Real World Events • - Natural Disasters • - Web Links • - Mainstream media

  29. Measuring Stability: Wikipedia • Articles tend to increase on the number of edits over time. • Possible Reasons: • - Wikipedia has gained popularity • - The article has gained more interest

  30. Concluding Remarks • - Credibility is a perceived notion and a quale. • - Measuring credibility- humans or computer • - Stability is how much an article changes over time. • - Improvement: include content change

  31. Acknowledgements I appreciate the following for their help: - Carolina Eastman - John Bowles - Libby Alford - Roxanne Spray - Chaitanya Evani I also thank NSF for their funding

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