# That’s part of it.

As an example of how information about history could be kept in-line (say, on
a wiki), consider color-coding pieces of text based on how…

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That’s part of it. But, having the history & associations of a text in-line
(rather than using jump links where you switch windows to see a
supposedly-’related’ page, or switching to the ‘history tab’ to see edit
history) helps a lot too.

As an example of how information about history could be kept in-line (say, on
a wiki), consider color-coding pieces of text based on how frequently they
changed in the past. A single page might have many passages with different
levels of confidence and controversy, & we currently don’t encode that in a
way that a casual reader can recognize.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [January 1,
2019](https://medium.com/p/3c733aea10f7).

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/thats-part-of-it-3c733aea10f7)

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