• WikiTrust Release History

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v. 2.11

• Author tracking is now implemented! In the check text tab, when the mouse hovers over a word, a pop-up displays the name of the user who inserted the word.

• We fixed a bug affecting how multiple votes for the same revision interact.

In summary, this is the information now available from the check text tab:

• Information trust is displayed via background coloring.
• Text authors are displayed via pop-ups when the mouse pointer hovers over the words.
• Text origin can be explored by clicking on words: clicking on a word redirects to the diff showing the edit where the word was inserted.

As we added author tracking, it is necessary to recompute the information you have in the database. If your database is up to date to the v2.10 version, all you need to do is:

 ./eval_online_wiki -delete_all -db_user <database_username> -db_pass <database_password> -db_name <database_name> -log_file /dev/null -n_events 1000000

Where common defaults for the values are:

• database_username: wikiuser

• database_name: wikidb

v. 2.10

This is a major release.

• Added voting: users can now vote for the truth of the information in a page, and the system is implemented in such a way that double-voting is not possible, even with the help of sock puppets.
• Made it possible to use a separate database for the trust information.
• Many performance improvaments

• WikiTrust now is much better suited to young, growing wikis, as we have facilitated the process with which the first wiki users can gain reputation. The trust information for a young wiki is now much more informative.

• Reorganized and improved the php code.

To use this release, it is necessary to re-create the database tables used by WikiTrust to store trust information, and to then recompute the trust information. No wiki information is lost in the process, as the process only affects the tables used by WikiTrust, rather than the general wiki database tables.

v. 2.07

• Fixed some bugs which reduced the efficiency of launching several online_eval_wiki simultaneously.
• Improved the behavior of the tool on small wikis.

v. 2.06

• Added a statically linked executable to the tarball, to facilitate tool use
• Updated the README to reflect the above.

v. 2.05

• Reorganized the files, to make the directory layout of the source package more logical.
• Improved the installation instructions in the README file

v. 2.04

• The database for the trust information is now InnoDB, and some issues related to possible deadlocks that were present in the code using MyISAM have been resolved.
• The name of the trust tab is now configurable.
• The efficiency of the code has been improved.
• It is now possible to "throttle down" the computation to avoid overloading a busy database server.

v. 2.03

This is the first released version of WikiTrust that contains the online system.