What is WikiSleuth?
WikiSleuth is a web application that allows Wikipedia editors to navigate a Wikipages history faster and more effectively. By viewing the most ten recent edits that affect a given segment of text, WikiSleuth provides a story of how the content has changed over time. Wikisleuth also provides the user with insight into how frequently a page is changed, and how recently these changes were made. With its affecting revisions and heatmap features,
WikiSleuth's Purpose
Wikipedia's page history does not allow for an editor to find the history of an inconsistent or unusual segment of text on a Wikipedia page. In essence, WikiSleuth's primary objective is to make the user's experience better by making information about inconsistent segments of text easily obtainable. In most cases, finding a revision that affects a given portion of text can take minutes. With WikiSleuth, this process takes seconds.
Affected Revisions
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Heatmap
WikiSleuth also has a heatmap feature that allows the user to gauge how long a particular sentence has remained as is on the Wikipedia page.
WikiSleuth's heatmap colors the Wikipedia article sentence by sentence. Sentences colored blue are considered cold spots, where cold sentences are those that have not been changed for a long period of time. Sentences colored red are considered hot spots, where hot sentences are those that have been changed very recently.
In this way, the Wikipedia editor can gauge how frequently the page in question has been updated, and provide insight into the accuracy of the article.
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Further Background Information
More background on WikiSleuth can be found in our paper, which describes its software architecture, the algorithms it uses, and other design decisions.