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Wikipedia's first twenty years- how what began as an experiment in collaboration became the world's most popular reference work.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Connections
Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
I.Hindsight
1: The Many (Reported) Deaths of Wikipedia
Joseph Reagle
2: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades
Omer Benjakob and Stephen Harrison
3: From Utopia to Practice and Back
Yochai Benkler
4: An Encyclopedia with Breaking News
Brian Keegan
5: Paid With Interest: COI Editing and its Discontents
William Beutler
II.Connection
6: Wikipedia and Libraries
Phoebe Ayers
7: Three Links: Be Bold, Assume Good Faith, and There Are No Firm Rules
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Cecelia A. Musselman, and Amy Carleton
8: How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, Made Me Sane, and Almost Saved the Internet
Jake Orlowitz
9: The First Twenty Years of Teaching with Wikipedia: From Faculty Enemy to Faculty Enabler
Robert E. Cummings
10: Wikipedia as a Role-Playing Game, or Why Some Academics Do Not Like Wikipedia
Dariusz Jemielniak
11: The Most Important Laboratory for Social Scientific and Computing Research in History
Benjamin Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw
12: Collaborating on the Sum of All Knowledge Across Languages
Denny Vrandečić
13: Rise of the Underdog
Heather Ford
III.Vision
14: Why Do I Have Authority to Edit the Page? The Politics of User Agency and Participation on Wikipedia
Alexandria Lockett
15: What We Talk About When We Talk About Community
Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, and Melissa Tamani
16: Towards a Wikipedia For and From Us All
Adele Vrana, Anasuya Sengupta, and Siko Bouterse
17: The Myth of the Comprehensive Historical Archive
Jina Valentine, Eliza Myrie, and Heather Hart
18: No Internet, No Problem
Stéphane Coillet-Matillon
19: Possible Enlightenments: Wikipedia's Encyclopedic Promise and Epistemological Failure
Matthew Vetter
20: Equity, Policy, and Newcomers: Five Journeys from Wiki Education
Ian A. Ramjohn and LiAnna L. Davis
21: Wikipedia Has a Bias Problem
Jackie Koerner
IV.Vision
22: Capstone: Making History, Building the Future Together
Katherine Maher
Contributors
Index

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.

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.

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.

Dariusz Jemielniak is Professor of Management at Kozminski University, Poland, where he heads the Management in Networked and Digital Societies Department, and the author of Common Knowledge?. He was a Fellow and Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet Studies at Harvard University from 2015 to 2018.

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.

Reviews

“… 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