Wikipedia @ 20 : stories of an incomplete revolution /
Wikipedia's first twenty years: how what began as an experiment in collaboration became the world's most popular reference work. We have been looking things up in Wikipedia for twenty years. What began almost by accident -- a wiki attached to a nascent online encyclopedia -- has become the...
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The MIT Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
Publication Dates: | [2020] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Wikipedia's first twenty years: how what began as an experiment in collaboration became the world's most popular reference work. We have been looking things up in Wikipedia for twenty years. What began almost by accident -- a wiki attached to a nascent online encyclopedia -- has become the world's most popular reference work. Regarded at first as the scholarly equivalent of a Big Mac, Wikipedia is now known for its reliable sourcing and as a bastion of (mostly) reasoned interaction. How has Wikipedia, built on a model of radical collaboration, remained true to its original mission of "free access to the sum of all human knowledge" when other tech phenomena have devolved into advertising platforms? In this book, scholars, activists, and volunteers reflect on Wikipedia's first twenty years, revealing connections across disciplines and borders, languages and data, the professional and personal. The contributors consider Wikipedia's history, the richness of the connections that underpin it, and its founding vision. Their essays look at, among other things, the shift from bewilderment to respect in press coverage of Wikipedia; Wikipedia as "the most important laboratory for social scientific and computing research in history"; and the acknowledgment that "free access" includes not just access to the material but freedom to contribute--that the summation of all human knowledge is biased by who documents it. -- Provided by publisher. "Founders, contributors, scholars, teachers, and students reflect on Wikipedia's first 20 years"-- |
Carrier Form: | x, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780262538176 (paperback) : 0262538172 (paperback) |
Index Number: | AE100 |
CLC: | G254.928-09 |
Call Number: | G254.928-09/W663 |
Contents: |
Introduction: Connections / Joseph Reagle, Jackie Koerner -- I: Hindsight -- 1: The Many (Reported) Deaths of Wikipedia / Joseph Reagle -- 2: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades / Omer Benjakob, Stephen Harrison -- 3: From Utopia to Practice and Back / Yochai Benkler -- 4: An Encyclopedia with Breaking News / Brian Keegan -- 5: Paid with Interest: COI Editing and Its Discontents / William Beutler -- II: Connection -- 6: Wikipedia and Libraries / Phoebe Ayers -- 7: Three Links: Be Bold, Assume Good Faith, and There Are No Firm Rules / Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Cecelia A. Musselman, Amy Carleton -- 8: How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet / Jake Orlowitz -- 9: The First Twenty Years of Teaching with Wikipedia: From Faculty Enemy to Faculty Enabler / Robert E. Cummings -- 10: Wikipedia as a Role-Playing Game, or Why Some Academics Do Not Like Wikipedia / Dariusz Jemielniak -- 11: The Most Important Laboratory for Social Scientific and Computing Research in History / Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw -- 12: Collaborating on the Sum of All Knowledge Across Languages / Denny Vrandečić -- 13: Rise of the Underdog / Heather Ford -- III: Vision -- 14: Why Do I Have Authority to Edit the Page? The Politics of User Agency and Participation on Wikipedia / Alexandria Lockett -- 15: What We Talk About When We Talk About Community / Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Melissa Tamani -- 16: Toward a Wikipedia For and From Us All / Adele Godoy Vrana, Anasuya Sengupta, Siko Bouterse -- 17: The Myth of the Comprehensive Historical Archive / Jina Valentine, Eliza Myrie, Heather Hart -- 18: No Internet, No Problem / Stéphane Coillet-Matillon -- 19: Possible Enlightenments: Wikipedia's Encyclopedic Promise and Epistemological Failure / Matthew A. Vetter -- 20: Equity, Policy, and Newcomers: Five Journeys from Wiki Education / Ian A. Ramjohn, LiAnna L. Davis -- 21: Wikipedia Has a Bias Problem / Jackie Koerner -- IV: Capstone -- 22: Capstone: Making History, Building the Future Together / Katherine Maher |