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Book review: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia by Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.

Book review: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia by Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.

With 19 million articles Wikipedia is the biggest and most popular encyclopedia that has been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Since its launch in July 2001 it has been the object of research. In 2010 computer scientist...
By Liselotte Doorduijn on 09/20/11 0

A “lazy” Wikipedia. An active community. An interesting story: Following the campaign for the development of the Greek-language Wikipedia, Part I

In the first 10 years of its existence, Wikipedia, this unusual “experiment” as it used to be called, has evolved into the world’s greatest reference source. Far more than that however, Wikipedia’s most surprising achievement is that it turned...
By Ilektra Pavlaki on 05/11/11 3

Daggering Wikipedia: How to increase the chance of having your Wikipedia article published?

When thinking of a subject to write about on Wikipedia, a couple of considerations crossed my mind. It’s easy to write about a scientific subject that isin line with Wikipedia’s core principles (NPOV, no original content and verifiability), but...
By Emina Sendijarevic on 10/03/10 3

1 of 1.129.725 German Wikipedia articles

Since Monday the 27th September I am a new Wikipedia author and I must admit that I like it. I can’t name reasons why I didn’t try it before but now I know that I don’t want to stop...
By Anne Lukas on 10/03/10 0

The vigilance of the Wikipedians

In the last couple of weeks I got some responses to my post concerning the revisitation of my Wikipedia article about Richard A. Rogers – in which I told that I was stupefied by the speed with which I...
By Sander Leegwater on 10/17/09 1