Wikipedia and Wikis

Haider, JuttaHögskolan i Borås,Lund University,Lunds universitet,Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap,Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies,Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology,Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT,Lunds Universitet,Information practices (author)

Wikis are often considered to be the core platform of peer production. This chapter delineates their most central design principles, history and affordances. Wikis are described as content management systems that allow for flexible collaboration without a defined content owner or leader. Users can modify the content and structure of documents directly in their web browser. Edits are usually archived and open to revision. This chapter pays particular attention to the most successful wiki-based system, the non-profit, online encyclopedia Wikipedia. As the chapter explains, Wikipedia actually contains a broad range of more or less individual wiki projects and has inspired a plethora of other endeavors, both open source and proprietary. The particular peer production model employed in Wikipedia is elucidated, and in the course also complicated. The chapter concludes by highlighting a number of tensions emerging from a wiki-based peer production model, between amateurs and experts, human editors and bots, lay knowledge and academic knowledge and the shaping of trust through external actors.

Sundin, OlofLund University,Lunds universitet,Informationspraktiker: Kommunikation, Kultur och Samhälle,Forskargrupper vid Lunds universitet,Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap,Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper,Institutioner,Humanistiska och teologiska fakulteterna,Information Practices: Communication, Culture and Society,Lund University Research Groups,Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies,Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences,Departments,Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology(Swepub:lu)kult-osu (author)
O'Neil, Mathieu (editor)
Pentzold, Christian (editor)
Toupin, Sophie (editor)
Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskapInstitutionen för kulturvetenskaper (creator_code:org_t)

In:The Handbook of Peer Production: Wiley, s. 169-184978111953710697811195370909781119537151111953710X

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