Links #3

List of links to articles, webpages, blogs, etc. concerning Wikipedia directly or indirectly

Who Does What on Wikipedia?
About a research carried out by Sudha Ram and Jun Liu (University of Arizona).

Determinants of Wikipedia Quality: the Roles of Global and Local Contribution Inequality

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Wiki-style theme for WordPress

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Nonfiction: “You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto,” by Jaron Lanier.

Review from his book

Interview: Encyclopedia Dramatica moderator

A contrast to Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s Decline and the 7 Types of Human Motivation

Knol: The State of Play

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

By nathanieltkacz, May 10, 2011

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds) About the book: For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point [...]

‘Good luck with your WikiPAIDia’: Reflections on the 2002 Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia

By nathanieltkacz, January 15, 2011

Interview between Edgar Enyedy and Nathaniel Tkacz, January 2011 In early 2002, Wikipedia had little more than 20,000 total articles. The project was still overseen by Larry Sanger. It wasn’t yet clear that Wikipedia’s ancestor and first effort by Jimmy Wales and Sanger to create a free online encyclopaedia, Nupedia, would soon be irrelevant. There [...]

Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader

‘Good luck with your WikiPAIDia’: Reflections on the 2002 Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia

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