Successful open communities must occasionally interact with closed worlds. For example, Wikipedia’s openness and transparency sometimes conflict with their obligations to be responsive to …

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In the previous analysis, of the 174 women from the National Women’s History Project, Wikipedia lacked articles on 23 of the women, Britannica missed …

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The recent controversy about gender imbalance and sexism in open content communities has been remarkable this summer, and this week’s news about Shuttleworth’s …

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I just finished reading Eric Goldman’s “Wikipedia’s Labor Squeeze and its Consequences” and it is a more reasoned argument than the hyperbolic prediction …

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The recent focus on Wikipedia “failing” or being “closed” merit some figures and explanation. On the afternoon of Sept 04, 2009 the English Wikipedia has …

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Despite my great pleasure and excitement that The MIT Press will be publishing my book next year (I sent the manuscript to the copy editor …

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There’s a tradition at Wikipedia of predicting when a particular milestone will be reached. Earlier expectations about Wikipedia were laughably conservative. While people have …

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There’s been a lot of coverage of the New York Times story “Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia.” It’s prompted discussion about balancing …

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This year’s picnic will be better than ever, as we’ll have an unconference to get us started:

The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will …

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In Noam Cohen’s recent New York Times article about “The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts” (i.e., the recent ArbCom decision about …

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