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Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution
Author(s): Joseph Reagle (Editor), Jackie Koerner
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publication Date: 13 Oct. 2020
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 0262538172
- ISBN-13: 9780262538176
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“… 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
—Science
About the Author
Joseph M. Reagle, Jr., is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is the author of Good Faith Collaboration, Reading the Comments, and Hacking Life, all published by the MIT Press. Jackie L. Koerner is a qualitative research analyst for online communities. She is Community Health Consultant for the Wikimedia community and from 2016 to 2018 was Visiting Scholar at Wiki Education Foundation at San Francisco State University.
