As part of the fellows program at the Berkman Center this semester is a weekly discussion period that has the theme of Web Exceptionalism, the …

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In Staeiou’s review of Good Faith Collaboration he characterizes the work as an ethnographic take on the norms and their interpretations by community members …

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For our Wikipedia-related reading group tonight, we are reading Zhang and Zhu’s Group size and incentives to contribute: a natural experiment that Chinese Wikipedia …

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One of the anxieties I experienced as a first-time author was what to expect with each step of the process. (Of course, my colleagues’ advice …

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My book Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (2010, The MIT Press) is now available. While I have long anticipated its publication, it’s …

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Given my interest in collaboration, I often enjoy hearing people’s stories about their workplace. My friend Ann was telling me about a clever colleague …

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The online version of a forthcoming paper in the Web Science special issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia is now available. If you …

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A two-month trial of the Pending Changes feature on the English Wikipedia is scheduled to begin on June 14. This will mean that for a …

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I recently read Jaron Lanier’s manifesto: You Are Not a Gadget. Lanier’s critique of Wikipedia and digital Maoism plays an important role in …

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Last week I traveled to Amsterdam to participate in an interesting conference on “Wikipedia and the Politics of Open Knowledge.” Videos of the presentations and …

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