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Making
KnowledgeHow Wikipedia shapes the
world
Dr. Adrianne WadewitzMellon Digital Scholarship FellowCenter for Digital Learning and Research Occidental College18 April 2013
Wikipedia policies and the
construction of knowledge
Source: xkcd
What is a fact? Sources: The Human Stain
Competing narratives: History of the Catholic Church
Framing information: Rape and pregnancy controversies in United
States elections, 2012 (today)
Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012 (first version, 21 August 2012)
Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012 (20 November 2012)
Editing Wikipedia is as…
Jane Austen
…easy as the
click of a button.
…but not everyone does.
The encyclopedia anyonecan edit…
Statistics and image: Wikimedia Foundation
(Khanna 2012)
Statistics and image: Wikimedia Foundation,
(Khanna 2012)
Spatial distribution of edits for the English Wikipedia in one day
Source: Zachte (2011)
Every edit is political
Image credits: Wikimedia Commons, User: Salimfadhley
Consent
• ―Let's call this a matter of
perspective. I am a
woman. If anyone ever
shows up in a delivery
room where I am giving
birth and attempts to use
"she's lying down" as a
pretext to take
photographs without my
permission, I will leap
from the gurney, tackle
the SOB, and eat the
camera.‖ – User:Durova
Source: The moment of birth
―Feminine‖ content Jimmy Wales: ―We have over
100 articles on different Linux distributions, some of them quite obscure … and [they have] virtually no impact on the broader culture, but we think that’s perfectly fine.‖ The same editors who deem those Linux articles important might dismiss articles on makeup, say, as ―some fluffy girl topic‖—despite significant cultural impact. (Bosch, 2012)
Image: CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images
….or, am I a man?
….or, am I a cyborg?
―The cyborg is a creature in a
post-gender world‖
Donna Haraway, ―The Cyborg Manifesto‖
(1991)
―The cyborg is a kind of
disassembled and reassembled,
postmodern collective and
personal self. This is the self
feminists must code.‖
Donna Haraway, ―The Cyborg Manifesto‖
(1991)
Bibliography Antin, Judd; Yee, Raymond; Cheshire, Coye; and Nov, Oded. ―Gender Differences in
Wikipedia Editing.‖ ACM Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. 2011. Bosch, Torie. ―How Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman
Problem.‖ Slate (13 July 2012).
Cohen, Noam. ―Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions.‖ The New York Times(30 January 2011).
Glott, Ruediger; Ghosh, Rishab. ―Analysis of Wikipedia Survey Data: Age and Gender Differences.‖ UNU-MERIT. March 2010.
Haraway, Donna. ―A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.‖ Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Khanna, Ayush. ―Nine out of ten Wikipedians continue to be men: Editor Survey.‖ Wikimedia Foundation Blog (27 April 2012).
Reagle, J., & Rhue, L. ―Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Britannica.‖ International Journal of Communication 5:0 (8 August 2011).
Reagle, Joseph. ―’Free as in sexist?’ Free culture and the gender gap.‖ First Monday 18.1 (2 January 2013).
Wikipedia Gender Gap Listserv Archives. March 2011. Zachte, Erik. ―Wikipedia edits visualized.‖ Infodisiac. 9 May 2011.