[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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Wikipedia vs. The Small Screen
Last week I had an interesting conversation with Noam Cohen from the NYT about Wikipedia vs. The Small Screen.
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Wikipedia and gendered categories
Recently, some have claimed that the English Wikipedia was “segregating” female novelists.
I don’t follow the complexities of WP as closely as I once …
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Talking about “Free as in Sexist?”
Recently I’ve spoken about my paper Free as in Sexist? in a couple of places. I was happy to return to Jerry Brito’s …
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