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| − | {{WCNA 2019 Grant Submission |
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| − | |name=Sandro Hawke |
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| − | |username=Sandro_Hawke |
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| − | |email=sandro{{@}}w3.org |
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| − | |resume=https://credweb.org |
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| − | https://www.w3.org/2018/10/credibility-tech/ |
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| − | https://hawke.org/resume-2020/ |
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| − | |geography=global |
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| − | |type=Other |
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| − | |idea=Let's connect wikipedians to the emerging ecosystem of credibility data. In particular, let's draw on their expertise and diligence to create community-sourced credibility data, where individual wikipedians express credibility signals and interact with such expressions from others. From this seed community, this approach has the potential to rapidly grow to global scale. |
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| − | |importance=tbd |
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| − | |inprogress=We are developing the relevant concepts and tools (as seen at https://credweb.org) but have not begun a deployment to the wikipedia community. |
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| − | |relevance=tbd |
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| − | |impact=tbd |
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| − | |scalability=Yes, this plan is phenomenally scalable. |
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| − | It is based on existing social practices, where each individual manages their own credibility assessment process (deciding what to believe), using what they can glean from their surroundings, including their social network. This process scales linearly with the number of individuals, with each individual deciding how much of their own resources to devote to each assessment they make. Adding computers and networking to this existing human process should greatly improve the efficiency and accuracy of this process, without altering this scaling behavior. |
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| − | In its approach to decentralization, this design avoids any central bottleneck. Every individual and organization is free to deploy as much human and computing resources as they choose, without needing approval or support from us or anyone else. This allows the kind of scaling we see in the web and email, which are similarly decentralized, but much faster since the underlying infrastructure is already in place. If the systems provide sufficient value to users, as expected, this approach might grow to global scale in a matter of months. |
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| − | The pace of scaling may also be quite rapid because it naturally spreads over social connections and social media. While it relies on software, which is often slow to develop, the software can come from any source, reducing this risk. Because of the social connections, the person-to-person spread may resemble the spread of ideas (memes) more than the slower spread of technology platforms. |
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| − | |people=I bring experience and expertise in all the necessary challenge areas, including credibility signals, community development, web application development, decentralized systems, and consensus process. |
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| − | |inclusiveness=tbd |
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| − | |challenges=tbd |
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| − | |cost=10k USD |
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| − | |expenses=To support my time |
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| − | |time=2-8 months, depending on how community members react. They may adopt it quickly or need carefully-constructed on-ramps. |
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| − | |previous=Yes, my work has been primarily grant funded for many years. Some highlights with web pages maintained by others: |
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| − | * 2018 Google (see "W3C") https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/elevating-quality-journalism/ |
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| − | * 2013 Knight Foundation https://knightfoundation.org/articles/introducing-crosscloud-project-get-your-data-out-silos/ |
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| − | * 2012 NSF https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1313789 |
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| − | * 2005 DARPA http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-02-21-a.html |
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| − | }} |
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