A trustworthy Wikipedia may be on the horizon

Do you trust the information you read on Wikipedia? If anyone can edit content, how do you know who to trust? Would educators accept Wikipedia as a source for research projects if the entry had a high level of trust?

UCSC Associate professor of Comupter Engineering, Luca de Alfaro, developed a "truthiness" rating system that color codes text of Wikipedia articles according to a computed value of trust. The Wiki Lab demo contains a few hundred pages; click here to check it out.