Article type: Fundamental
Article name: Experimental - Liquid Trust
Author: Framez


Description:

various levels of trust - liquid trust

Wikipedia has this dynamic where, if you write an article in a language, you need to cite sources, and there needs to be quite a few of them, that look quite authoritative. Often, contributors don’t do the legwork to dig them up and verify them, not because they are simply lazy, but often because it costs money to buy the actual books or research-articles.

For example - You want to write an article about a Bulgarian dish. All the good resources are in Bulgarian, so to English-speaking moderators, those resources become a trash-shaped enigma - no one will track them, buy them, and get them professionally translated. You can’t cite common knowledge as a source either. You can cite a menu in English - that only serves as a final proof of your correctness to you - but to moderators - they don’t see that.

In other words, Wikipedia says: be conservative. Wikipedia should be unharmed by scandals. Wikipedia should strive for maximum data accuracy, even if this means omitting a lot of knowledge. Listiary says: be everything at once. Use federation to protect from scandals - let bad wikis exist and be taken down. Let users write whatever they want, and assign an ever-evolving trust metric to the article.

P.S. This is not to say that Wikipedia is wrong - they have a different model of doing things, that fits them being this pillar of knowledge. Then, in a world with Wikipedia, we might implement other models.



Back