Wednesday, May 8, 2002

Authorship Credit on Wikis and Weblogs Another problem is that this solution does not lend itself to a personal choice by each author as to whether they want to get some sort of credit for an idea; for instance, on MeatballWiki (and maybe WikiWiki also) I would expect that sometimes "Contributors" tags are erased during refactoring. A wiki community would have to develop strong norms about the retention of "Contributors" tags in order for these tags to really fulfill their function. It would be nice to have a TechnologySolution that would allow some authors to retain credit for their contributions even if there were others in the community who didn't want to bother about such things. Conversations would be easier to track if subtle font colors, for example, were used to automatically color code authorship, of, say a single-authored sentence. And a minimum-fontsize name tag could be automatically inserted. (Thus, subliminal learning of "voices," augmented by the instant ability to say "who is this guy?" This doesn't solve the problem of refactoring/defacing, (which is a feature as well as a bug) but the Complementing Weblog fills that gap. --JonSchull comments? [] 10:07:02 AM

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