On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:32 PM, William Pietri <will...@scissor.com> wrote: > On 02/16/2010 02:12 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: >> In general: "Never before people knew so little about something they >> use so often", as a German journalist said about Wikipedia. > > In a strange way, that pleases me; as Danny Hillis says, "What people > mean by the word technology is the stuff that doesn't work yet." That > people use Wikipedia regularly without caring about the the inner > workings is a sign that we've done something right. Of course, it might > be too right; maybe we'd like people to pay better attention to the > quality of what they're reading. > > Interestingly, the people who make luggage X-ray machines have a similar > problem: problems are rare enough that the operators get bored and stop > looking. Their solution is something called Threat Image Projection: > they randomly add pictures of bad things to images of real bags. When > the operator notices something dangerous, they press the "threat" > button. If they don't notice a projected threat, it's counted against > them. That keeps the operators alert enough that they'll hopefully > notice real threats. > > I'd love to find some way to usefully apply this approach to Wikipedia, > but haven't come up with anything yet. Perhaps someone here will.
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