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'wiki' Tag
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The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal
October 28, 2009With the help of my advisor, Dr. David Ribes, I recently got a chapter of my master’s thesis accepted to the ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, to be held in February 2010 in Savannah, Georgia. It is titled “The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal” and focuses on [...]
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Wikisym Poster: The Social Roles of Bots and Assisted Editing Tools
October 24, 2009This project investigates various software programs as non-human social actors in Wikipedia, arguing that their influence must not be overlooked in research of the on-line encyclopedia project. Using statistical and archival methods, the roles of assisted editing programs and bots are examined. First, the proportion of edits made by these non-human actors is significantly more [...]
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WikiConference New York: An Open Unconference
September 7, 2009A few months ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the first (hopefully annual) WikiConference New York, sponsored by the Wikimedia New York City chapter with assistance from Free Culture @ NYU and the Information Law Institute at NYU’s law school. I know that I am atrociously late in writing this post, but I’m [...]
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Working Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production
March 30, 2009While Wikipedia does have epistemic standards, the open question is how such an epistemology can be operationalized and enforced.
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Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia
July 18, 2008As an ethnographer, I enter into communities, learn their customs, beliefs, and practices, then report back to the academy to share what I have discovered. In this presentation, I wish to do the opposite, presenting to the Wikipedian community an ethnography of academics as they relate to Wikipedia.
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Why aren’t the GPL and the GFDL freely licensed?
May 23, 2008Works licensed under the GPL and the GFDL can be modified and then freely redistributed, as long as the modified versions are released under the same conditions. Why are we not allowed to modify these licenses and redistribute them?
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A Communicative Ethnography of Argumentative Strategies in a Wikipedian Content Dispute
March 28, 2008This presentation was adapted from a chapter in my Senior thesis on Wikipedia’s legal system that focused on a dispute over the inclusion of images of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in an article about him, using a methodology of communicative ethnography. Most who opposed the image were not familiar with Wikipedia’s unique method of content [...]
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The Wikipedian Discourse: A Foucauldian Archaeology
December 20, 2007This paper is a Foucauldian account of power relations as expressed through discourse in the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture
May 31, 2007An investigation into the community formed by small number of Wikipedia contributors who care enough to decide how, at some level, Wikipedia is run. The work discusses identity, communication, and organizational hierarchy in this subculture.
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Senior Thesis: Democracy in Wikipedia
May 10, 2007My thesis studied the legal culture of Wikipedia to examine the law through stories and histories, giving the reader a sense of not only what the Wikipedian legal system is, but also what fundamental assumptions the community makes in utilizing such a system.