Problems

Posted by Ravi

With due respect to your idea and your striving to come up with some
solution to the problem, I see a couple issues:

1. What are you trying to achieve? A pattern of the terrorist
activities?! The terrorism is here for decades, and you can use the
PAST
DATA to derive the patterns. You won't want to wait for another 5/10
years to develop just a pattern, right?

2. You are talking about a public system; it means that the system will
be accessible to the terrorists as well. They can lull the system by
entering the false information; worse even, they can delete some of the
correct information that others have entered. By the way, I understand
that the terrorists trying to lull the system would be a reflection on
the systems success; and then probably you can develop some other
pattern to detect such modifications to system data and hence detect
the
terrorists; but that seems a long way down.

How do you propose to address the above issues?

By the way, I am not very sure but I don't think you can apply the
wikipedia principle to the issue no. 2. The wikipedia designated
editors
edit the (public submitted) content in order to make it accurate, well
structured and well worded. They do this by using the past evidences
for
verification of the accuracy. And they also kind of strive to build the
consensus. You are talking about the content that nobody has any past
knowledge of; so there is no question of building the consensus on such
data.