Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

✍ Scribed by Dariusz Jemielniak

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 312
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Prologue vii
Acknowledgments xv
introduction 1
1 Wikipedia in Short: numbers, rules, and Editors 10
2 formal roles and hierarchy: A Cabal that rules the World 29
3 Conflict resolution on Wikipedia: Why die for danzig? 59
4 Bureaucracy and Control: Big Brother is Watching 85
5 trust in people and trust in procedures:
the truth is out there 105
6 Between Anarchy and Bureaucracy: Wikimedia governance 125
7 Leadership transformed: the pros and Cons
of Benevolent dictatorship 153
8 the knowledge revolution at the gates 181
Appendix A: Methodology 193
Appendix B: Glossary of Wikipedia Slang 203
Notes 227
References 237
Index 281

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