TY - JOUR AU - Cross, Tom PY - 2006/09/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 11 IS - 9 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v11i9.1400 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1400 SP - AB - 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. ER -