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Stories of an Incomplete Revolution

Stories of an Incomplete Revolution

Edited by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

Edited by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

Edited by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

Edited by Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner

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    About Wikipedia @ 20

    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 an 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

    About Wikipedia @ 20

    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 an 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.

    Product Details

    Category: Science & Technology

    Paperback | $27.95
    Published by The MIT Press
    Oct 13, 2020 | 376 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262538176

    Category: Science & Technology

    Ebook | $20.99
    Published by The MIT Press
    Oct 13, 2020 | 376 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9780262360609

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    Praise

    “… anyone interested in the history, current constitution, and possible future development of a singular contemporary global phenomenon will be stimulated by this anniversary collection.”
    —Science

    Table Of Contents

    Preface
    Introduction: Connections
    Joseph Reagle and 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 and 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, and 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 and 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, and Melissa Tamani
    16: Towards a Wikipedia For and From Us All
    Adele Vrana, Anasuya Sengupta, and Siko Bouterse
    17: The Myth of the Comprehensive Historical Archive
    Jina Valentine, Eliza Myrie, and Heather Hart
    18: No Internet, No Problem
    Stéphane Coillet-Matillon
    19: Possible Enlightenments: Wikipedia’s Encyclopedic Promise and Epistemological Failure
    Matthew Vetter
    20: Equity, Policy, and Newcomers: Five Journeys from Wiki Education
    Ian A. Ramjohn and LiAnna L. Davis
    21: Wikipedia Has a Bias Problem
    Jackie Koerner
    IV.Vision
    22: Capstone: Making History, Building the Future Together
    Katherine Maher
    Contributors
    Index

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