Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis

The reliability of information collected from at large Internet users by open collaborative wikis such as Wikipedia has been a subject of widespread debate. This paper provides a practical proposal for improving user confidence in wiki information by coloring the text of a wiki article based on the...

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Published inFirst Monday Vol. 11; no. 9; p. np
Main Author Cross, Tom
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.09.2006
Subjects
Collaborative tools
Educational uses
Full text databases
Internet
Online databases
Online information retrieval
Social writing platforms
Trust
Wikipedia
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Summary:The reliability of information collected from at large Internet users by open collaborative wikis such as Wikipedia has been a subject of widespread debate. This paper provides a practical proposal for improving user confidence in wiki information by coloring the text of a wiki article based on the venerability of the text. This proposal relies on the philosophy that bad information is less likely to survive a collaborative editing process over large numbers of edits. Colorization would provide users with a clear visual cue as to the level of confidence that they can place in particular assertions made within a wiki article.
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ISSN:1396-0466
1396-0466
DOI:10.5210/fm.v11i9.1400