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Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

By Dariusz Jemielniak

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
0804791201, 9780804791205
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2678358 bytes)
Pages
\312
Time added
2022-08-23 09:54:36

Description

Prologue vii Acknowledgments xv introduction 1 1 Wikipedia in Short: numbers, rules, and Editors 10 2 formal roles and hierarchy: A Cabal that rules the World 29 3 Conflict resolution on Wikipedia: Why die for danzig? 59 4 Bureaucracy and Control: Big Brother is Watching 85 5 trust in people and trust in procedures: the truth is out there 105 6 Between Anarchy and Bureaucracy: Wikimedia governance 125 7 Leadership transformed: the pros and Cons of Benevolent dictatorship 153 8 the knowledge revolution at the gates 181 Appendix A: Methodology 193 Appendix B: Glossary of Wikipedia Slang 203 Notes 227 References 237 Index 281

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