TY - BOOK ID - 40797228 TI - Good faith collaboration : the culture of Wikipedia AU - Reagle, Joseph Michael AU - Lessig, Lawrence PY - 2010 SN - 9780262014472 0262014475 0262518201 9786612899294 0262289717 1282899295 9780262289719 9780262518208 9781282899292 PB - Cambridge The MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Electronic encyclopedias KW - Wikis (Computer science) KW - Communication in learning and scholarship KW - Authorship KW - Online social networks KW - Encyclopédies électroniques KW - Wikis (Informatique) KW - Communication savante KW - Coauteurs KW - Réseautage personnel (Informatique) KW - Congresses KW - Technological innovations KW - Collaboration KW - Case studies KW - Congrès KW - Innovations KW - Cas, Etudes de KW - Wikipedia. KW - Case studies. KW - Electronic social networks KW - Social networking Web sites KW - Virtual communities KW - Social media KW - Social networks KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Web sites KW - Authoring (Authorship) KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - Communication in scholarship KW - Scholarly communication KW - Learning and scholarship KW - WikiForums KW - WikiWikiWebs KW - Forums (Discussion and debate) KW - Encyclopedias and dictionaries KW - Interactive encyclopedias KW - Multimedia encyclopedias KW - Online encyclopedias KW - Electronic publications KW - Electronic reference sources KW - Communities, Online (Online social networks) KW - Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) KW - Online communities (Online social networks) KW - Library and information services KW - Information technology: general topics KW - Impact of science and technology on society UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40797228 AB - 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 on both knowledge claims and other contributors, Reagle argues, creates an extraordinary collaborative potential. Wikipedia is famously an encyclopedia "anyone can edit," and Reagle examines Wikipedia's openness and several challenges to it: technical features that limit vandalism to articles; private actions to mitigate potential legal problems; and Wikipedia's own internal bureaucratization. He explores Wikipedia's process of consensus (reviewing a dispute over naming articles on television shows) and examines the way leadership and authority work in an open content community. Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been imitated, analyzed, and satirized. Despite the social unease over its implications for individual autonomy, institutional authority, and the character (and quality) of cultural products, Wikipedia's good faith collaborative culture has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia."--Jacket. ER -