Books Details
Author : Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. Pages : 244 pages Publisher : MIT Press Language :
ISBN-10 : 0262518201 ISBN-13 : 9780262518208
Books Descriptions
How Wikipedia collaboration addresses the challenges of openness, consensus, and
leadership in a historical pursuit for a universal encyclopedia.Wikipedia, the online
encyclopedia, is built by a community?a community of Wikipedians who are expected
to ?assume good faith? when interacting with one another. In Good Faith
Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture.Wikipedia,
says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its
early twentieth-century ancestors include Paul Otlet's Universal Repository and H. G.
Wells's proposal for a World Brain. Both these projects, like Wikipedia, were fuelled
by new technology?which at the time included index cards and microfilm. What
distinguishes Wikipedia from these and other more recent ventures is Wikipedia's
good-faith collaborative culture, as seen not only in the writing and editing of articles
but also in their discussion pages and edit histories. Keeping an open perspective
