On my Wikipedia user page, I keep a list of the Online Communities courses I’ve taught. The capstone project for the course is to …
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Could Wikipedia sue Neri Oxman?
Bill Ackman is rattling the sabres of his legal team in a 77-page “legal demand.” Bizarrely, he has doubled down on the claims that his …
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Wikipedia's wiped edit
Yesterday I was surprised to see widespread headlines that Wikipedia's "first edit" was being auctioned as a NFT. That wasn't right, and I wondered what …
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The officiousness of Wikipedia (my bio still sucks)
[Update: on 2020-Aug-092 Wikipedian Biogeographist improved my biography.]
My English Wikipedia bio has sucked for as long as it’s existed. (Sometimes it doesn’t …
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Accident, luck, contingency, and meaning
In the conclusion to Mako Hill’s article “Almost Wikipedia,” he takes issue with my characterization of Wikipedia’s success as luck . (To be clear …
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Factoids for Wikipedia
As I wrote in the post “Not notable: Dead to Wikipedia,” I was disappointed with the quality of my biography on Wikipedia, but (aside from …
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Not notable: Dead to Wikipedia
After roughly four years, my Wikipedia biography is no more; it now redirects to a page for my book about Wikipedia. In reflecting upon this …
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Wikipedia and GamerGate
There’s been a lot of press about the forthcoming Arbitration Committee decision on the conduct of editors on the GamerGate article. For instance, today …
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Wikipedia’s citation mess and how to cope
Wikipedia citations and bibliographies are a confusing mess. This just isn’t the case for newbies, but also experienced academics. In “Wikipedia’s Citation Mess …
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