The Wikipedia Weekly interview with Jimmy Wales turned to a topic dear to my heart: the role of Neutral Point of View in collaboration. Wales …

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Something I learned at the W3C was that a document was never done, there are only milestones and the question of whether you have moved …

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After a presentation of my chapter on “encyclopedic anxiety” Alice Marwick recommended David Foster Wallace’s “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars Over Usage …

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The import of the use of reference works in court cases is frequently misunderstood, and in this case Wikipedia is no different. Wikipedia has been …

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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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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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