Wikipedia @ 20 : Stories of an Incomplete Revolution / Joseph Reagle, Jackie Koerner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reagle, Joseph, editor.

Koerner, Jackie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : The MIT Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Contributors Phoebe Ayers, Omer Benjakob, Yochai Benkler, William Beutler, Siko Bouterse, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Amy Carleton, Robert Cummings, LiAnna L. Davis, Siân Evans, Heather Ford, Stephen Harrison, Heather Hart, Benjamin Mako Hill, Dariusz Jemielniak, Brian Keegan, Jackie Koerner, Alexandria Lockett, Jacqueline Mabey, Katherine Maher, Michael Mandiberg, Stephane Coillet-Matillon, Cecelia A. Musselman, Eliza Myrie, Jake Orlowitz, Ian A. Ramjohn, Joseph Reagle, Anasuya Sengupta, Aaron Shaw, Melissa Tamani, Jina Valentine, Matthew Vetter, Adele Vrana, Denny Vrandečić

Contents:

I Hindsight

1 The Many (Reported) Deaths of Wikipedia p. 9 / Joseph Reagle

2 From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades p. 21 / Omer Benjakob and Stephen Harrison

3 From Utopia to Practice and Back p. 43 / Yochai Benkler

4 An Encyclopedia with Breaking News p. 55 / Brian Keegan

5 Paid with Interest: COI Editing and Its Discontents p. 71 / William Beutler

II Connection

6 Wikipedia and Libraries p. 89 / Phoebe Ayers

7 Three Links: Be Bold, Assume Good Faith, and There Are No Firm Rules p. 107 / Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze and Cecelia A. Musselman and Amy Carleton

8 How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet p. 125 / Jake Orlowitz

9 The First Twenty Years of Teaching with Wikipedia: From Faculty Enemy to Faculty Enabler p. 141 / Robert E. Cummings

10 Wikipedia as a Role-Playing Came, or Why Some Academics Do Not Like Wikipedia p. 151 / Dariusz Jemielniak

11 The Most Important Laboratory for Social Scientific and Computing Research in History p. 159 / Benjamin Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw

12 Collaborating on the Sum of All Knowledge Across Languages p. 175 / Denny Vrandecic

13 Rise of the Underdog p. 189 / Heather Ford

III Vision

14 Why Do I Have Authority to Edit the Page? The Politics of User Agency and Participation on Wikipedia p. 205 / Alexandria Lockett

15 What We Talk About When We Talk About Community p. 221 / Sian Evans and Jacqueline Mabey and Michael Mandiberg and Melissa Tamani

16 Toward a Wikipedia For and From Us All p. 239 / Adele Godoy Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta and Siko Bouterse

17 The Myth of the Comprehensive Historical Archive p. 259 / Jina Valentine and Eliza Myrie and Heather Hart

18 No Internet, No Problem p. 273 / Stephane Coillet-Matillon

19 Possible Enlightenments: Wrkipedia's Encyclopedic Promise and Epistemological Failure p. 285 / Matthew A. Vetter

20 Equity, Policy, and Newcomers: Five Journeys from Wiki Education p. 297 / Ian A. Ramjohn and LiAnna L. Davis

21 Wikipedia Has a Bias Problem p. 311 / Jackie Koerner

IV Capstone

22 Capstone: Making History, Building the Future Together p. 325 / Katherine Maher.

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Local Notes:

KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 104350

ISBN:

9780262538176

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access