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Common knowledge? : an ethnography of Wikipedia /

This study describes the results of a six-year ethnographic research project on Wikipedia. It explains how Wikipedia's theoretically ahierarchical system may increase Wikipedians' perception of inequality in practice and how hierarchy is enacted through community elections. Although Wikipe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jemielniak, Dariusz (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Wikipedia in short : numbers, rules, and editors
  • Formal roles and hierarchy : a cabal that rules the world
  • Conflict resolution on Wikipedia : why die for Danzig?
  • Bureaucracy and control : Big Brother is watching
  • Trust in people and trust in procedures : the truth is out there
  • Between anarchy and bureaucracy : Wikimedia governance
  • Leadership transformed : the pros and cons of benevolent dictatorship
  • The knowledge revolution at the gates.