Wikipedia offers unrestricted knowledge, is open to all - but the free online encyclopedia still has weak spots, even 15 years after its creation. German communication expert Rudolf Stöber explains why.
Museums embrace Wikipedia and the power of crowdsourcing as venerable institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art, grapple with how content is created and shared in the digital era.
As society turns to Wikipedia for answers, students, educators, and citizens should understand its limitations when researching scientific topics that are politically charged. On entries subject to edit-wars, like acid rain, evolution, and global change, one can obtain -- within seconds -- diametrically different information on the same topic, say authors of a new report.
Wikipedia is a paradox and a miracle—a crowdsourced encyclopedia that has become the default destination for nonessential information. That it has survived almost 15 years and remained the top Google result for a vast number of searches is a testament to the impressive vision of founder Jimmy Wales and the...
Wikipedia is often portrayed as an a-hierarchical, spontaneous, open-collaboration movement. These treats are definitely common for Wikipedia, yet it also does ...
The Wikimedia Foundation has been steadily rolling out updates to the Wikipedia mobile experience in recent months, and today that trend continues as the organization rolls out a brand-new iOS app.
The relationship between academics and Wikipedia is a complex one. At one level we love it: however much some of us may deny it, we all use it, at the very least as a route to other information, and often as a way to start to get an idea about something new. At another level we hate it, knowing how unreliable it is and knowing how much students are likely to rely on it.
Speaker: Pete Forsyth, Principal with Wiki Strategies Topic: Wikipedia - a new era in humanity's curation of knowledge Abstract: Wikipedia is an unheralde
Emanuel Pastreich “Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble” This Time Magazine article “Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble” (January 14, 2016) suggests that Wikipedia is in trouble because of some obscure cultural inflexibility. Although the problems with Wikipedia, despite its considerable popularity, are quite serious, the article intentionally misdiagnoses the problem so as to…
As the academic year shudders to a close, as teachers and examiners everywhere emerge battered and bug-eyed from beneath slagheaps of assessment papers, I'm struck once again by how a dowdy education system hides its flaws inside larded layers of snobbery and obscurantism.
* Book: Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak. In a review David Auerbach writes: ” In his book Common Knowledge, Dariusz Jemielniak, a longtime Wikipedia editor and administrator, discusses one of the most epic edit wars of all time, a fierce and unyielding debate over how to refer to the Polish city of …
We can provide high quality academic content that is just two clicks away from starting the browser. First is the Wikipedia article in search results and the second is the open access article linked there.
This article investigates a form of governance that makes online social production possible. Drawing on the concepts of capability and routine, we develop a dynamic, process-oriented view that departs from past research focused on static comparative analysis. We theorize that online social production systems develop a collective governance capability to steer the process of integrating distributed knowledge resources to the production of value. Governance mechanisms emerge from individual and collective learning that is made possible by new technology, and they evolve over time, as routines are developed to respond to new problems faced by a growing production system. Using Wikipedia as a paradigmatic example of online social production, we characterize governance as an evolving, enabling and embedded process and discuss implications for a dynamic theory of governance.
By Katherine Maher, Chief Communications Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. Knowledge should be free, open, and collaborative. This is the idea at the heart of Wikipedia.
What do the thought leaders at Wikidata think about the recent Freebase-to-Wikidata transition? What does it mean for the Google Knowledge Graph? Learn more
“Nathaniel Tkacz … examines the entire Wikipedia project in the way that we as academics examine a Wikipedia article: questioning at every stage, digging deeper, looking through the project to its source, so as to apprehend its nature and come to a better understanding. Given the role and prominence of Wikipedia and those behind it, and how it has come to exemplify the internet itself, this is a critically important exercise – and Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness is an important book.
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