In Harvey Einbinder’s excellent “The Myth of the Britannica” he includes some of the advertisements used to sell Britannica around 1960 including this one …

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I recently had the opportunity to catch up on some of my reading including new quantitative analysis of Wikipedia contribution. In particular, the question about …

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In my dissertation I make only a passing reference to the “Iron Law of Oligarchy,” an expression coined by Robert Michels, an early 20th-century sociologist …

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In the spring I will again be teaching a class on conflict management. More than one colleague has expressed puzzlement as to why I would …

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As we all know by now, there are manifest anxieties associated with the practice of blogging. The most common one being the stress of feeling …

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I often compare the “peer production” of Wikipedia to that of the OED, which was also built with the contributions of hundreds of people from …

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Previously, I’ve explained what openness means relative to a community rather than the license governing its content. In short an open content community, as …

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In a parenthetical in my dissertation I note that when I speak of the men in the history of reference works I am being unfortunately …

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My presentation for WikiSym 2007 is now up, including a link to the abstract and paper. I fear it’s a little wordy by I …

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The recent discussions about the deployment of features for supporting vetted/approved pages and trusted authors, starting with German Wikipedia and perhaps expanding to the …

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