Privacy-Respecting Reputation for Wiki Users

Abstract

Wikis are popular tools for creation and sharing of content. Integrated reputation systems allow to assess expertise and reliability of authors and thus to support trust in the wiki content. Yet, results from our empirical study indicate that the disclosure of user reputation evokes privacy issues. As a solution for this conflict between the need to evaluate trustworthiness of users and protecting their privacy, we present a privacy-respecting reputation system for wikis that we realized as OpenSource-Extension for the wiki software MediaWiki.

Privacy-Preserving Reputation Systems Based on Blockchain and Other Cryptographic Building Blocks: A Survey

“…Zhang et al [84] present STARS, a software component that can serve as an add-on to an underlying non privacy preserving reputation system to achieve anonymity and traceability. Kellermann et al [85] present a privacy respecting reputation system for wiki users. The system allows to assess the expertise and the reliability of authors contributing to a wiki in order to foster trust in the wiki content.…”

Trust in an Asynchronous World: Can We Build More Secure Infrastructure?

“… Trust fosters, maintains cooperation, as it encourages information sharing, enriches relationships, increases openness, mutual acceptance, enhances conflict resolution, integrative problem solving: (Shapiro, 1987), (Katzenbach et al, 1995), (Mayer et al, 1995), (Ross, LaCroix, 1996), (Wheatley, Kellner-Rogers, 1996), (Shaw, 1997), (Zand, 1997), (Deering, Murphy, 1998), (Elangovan, Shapirio, 1998), (Lane, 1998), (Rousseau et al, 1998), (Ryan, Oestreich, 1998), (Tsai, Ghoshal, 1998), (Whitener et al, 1998), (Zaheer et al, 1998), (Ghoshal, Bartlett, 1999), (Lewis, 1999), (Reina, Reina, 1999), (Senge et al, 1999), (Costa, 2000), (Marek, 2008), (Cofta, 2007).  Trust applied to data transfer, storage in public networks and information systems: (Robinson et al, 2005), (Lu and Tsudik, 2010), (Dong and Dulay, 2010), (Kellermann et al, 2010), (Ma et al, 2010), (Cornelis and De Cock, 2011).  Trust, information security and risk management: (Benantar, 2005), (Siegrist, 2005), (Veeningen et al, 2010), (Muller, 2010), (Khoury and Tawbi, 2010), (Crampton, 2010), (Ballardin and Merro, 2010), (Kamil and Lowe, 2010).…”