Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:16:59 BST CiteULike: hlovise's collaborative http://www.citeulike.org/user/hlovise/tag/collaborative CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/hlovise/article/841653 <i>First Monday, Vol. 11, No. 12.</i><br /><br />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. Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis Tom Cross First Monday, Vol. 11, No. 12. 2006-09-13T07:37:28-00:00 First Monday 11 12 collaborative democracy wiki