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Good news for all those lecturers out there marking undergrad. work riddled with Wikipedia references, Wikipedia can actually become reliable! Tom Cross explains: "it would be better to provide Wikipedia users with a visual cue that enables them to see what assertions in an article have, in fact, survived the scrutiny of a large number of people, and what assertions are relatively fresh, and may not be as reliable. This would enable Wikipedia users to take more advantage of the power of the collaborative editing process taking place without forcing that process to change."



See the full paper by Tom Cross at First Monday.