Improving Wikipedia’s accuracy : is edit age a solution?

• Main Authors: Luyt, Brendan, Tay, Aaron Chee Hsien, Lim, Hai Thian, Cheng, Kian Hong
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90507; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8346
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Wikipedia is fast becoming a key information source for many despite criticism that it is unreliable and inaccurate. A number of recommendations have been made to sort the chaff from the wheat in Wikipedia, among which is the idea of color-coding article segment edits according to age (Cross, 2006)....