Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open Export

@article{citeulike:840872, abstract = {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.}, author = {Cross, Tom}, citeulike-article-id = {840872}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/cross/}, journal = {First Monday}, keywords = {authority, consensus, credibility, social\_software, trust, web\_epistemology}, month = {September}, number = {9}, posted-at = {2006-09-12 11:38:36}, priority = {3}, title = {Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open}, url = {http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/cross/}, volume = {11}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:840872 L3 - citeulike-article-id:840872 N2 - 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. IS - 9 JF - First Monday TI - Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open VL - 11 KW - authority KW - consensus KW - credibility KW - social_software KW - trust KW - web_epistemology AU - Cross, Tom PY - 2006/09// UR - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/cross/ ER -