'wikimedia foundation' Tag

• Closed-source papers on open source communities: a problem and a partial solution

  June 12, 2011

  In the Wikipedia research community — that is, the group of academics and Wikipedians who are interested in studying Wikipedia — there has been a pretty substantial and longstanding problem with how research is published. Academics, from graduate students to tenured faculty, are deeply invested and entrenched in an system that rewards the publication of [...]

  posted in Blog Posts, Wikis by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: Closing Ceremony

  July 20, 2008

  Here are my notes from the closing ceremony of Wikimania. It was really an amazing conference and I was very honored to be there.

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger

• Conceptions and Misconceptions Academics Hold About Wikipedia

  July 18, 2008

  As 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.

  posted in Conference Presentations by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008: Opening Keynote with Egyptian Minister Ahmed Darwish

  July 17, 2008

  The official theme or slogan for this year’s Wikimania is “the knowledge revolution that is changing wisdom.” I think this phrase – especially the difference between knowledge and wisdom – was chosen very carefully and I think it is an excellent distinction to make. This morning’s opening ceremony began with a speech from the Egyptian [...]

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger

• Wikimania 2008

  July 16, 2008

  I am currently in Egypt for Wikimania 2008, which is being held this year at the Library of Alexandria. On Sunday, I will be presenting my ethnographic analysis of conceptions and misconceptions academics hold about Wikipedia. This presentation was going to be about old, computer-illiterate professors but has turned into something much more interesting: a [...]

  posted in Conference Notes by R. Stuart Geiger

• There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

  May 31, 2007

  An 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.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger