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Representing venerability digitally

in Credibility Blog by shaun November 3, 2006 at 1:37 am

Collaborative information sharing sites like Wikipedia present a unique set of challenges related to credibility. In Puppy Smoothies,  Tom Cross describes a method to highlight information that has “venerability” on these kinds of sites. The idea being that information that has persisted for a long time without being overwritten is good information. Does this mean that information that is overwritten frequently is more likely to be bad information?

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