Posts By: nathanieltkacz

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 [...]
Interview between Edgar Enyedy and Nathaniel Tkacz, January 2011 In...

‘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 [...]
Day one of WikiWars begins with brief opening addresses from...

DAY 1: Bangalore – Session 1: Wiki Theory

By nathanieltkacz, January 17, 2010

Day one of WikiWars begins with brief opening addresses from Nishant Shah and Geert Lovink. Shung-Ling Chen The first panel titled Wiki Theory begins with Shun-Ling Chen from the Harvard Law School.  Shun-Ling is interested in comparing Wikipedia with the historical ‘republic of science’ and begins by looking at the 19th century OED. She draws [...]