New Tool Mines Wikipedia Trustworthiness

September 5, 2007 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.

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