User:Charleslincolnshire

Charleslincolnshire teaches medieval history in the UK.

Here's a list of 20 readings on Wikipedia and (mostly medieval) history that I find helpful/interesting.


 * 1) Roberto Bianchi, 'History on Wikipedia: a non-neutral World', Public History Weekly 2022
 * 2) Cullen Chandler and Alison Gregory, ‘Sleeping with the enemy: Wikipedia in the College Classroom’, History Teacher 43 (2010), 247-257, online
 * 3) Jose van Dijck, ‘Wikipedia and the neutrality principle’, in her Culture of Connectivity: A critical history of Social Media (Oxford, 2013)
 * 4) Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, ed., Writing History in the Digital Age (Chicago, 2013). Several excellent essays, available online
 * 5) Heather Ford, ‘How Wikipedia’s silent coup ousted our traditional sources of knowledge’, The Conversation 2016, online (and keep an eye out for her forthcoming book, Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age ).
 * 6) Alaric Hall, ‘How to change (medieval) History’, The Public Medievalist (2019) online
 * 7) David G. Halsted, ‘Accuracy and quality in historical representation: Wikipedia, textbooks and the Investiture Controversy’, Digital Medievalist 9 (2013) DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/dm.50
 * 8) Mike Horswell, ‘Wikipedia and the crusades: constructing and communicating crusading’, in The Crusades and the Modern World: Engaging the Crusades, Volume Two (Abingdon, Routledge: 2019), pp. 111-129
 * 9) Richard Jensen, ‘Military history on the electronic frontier: Wikipedia fights the War of 1812’, Journal of Military History 76 (2012), 523-556 online
 * 10) Lori Jones and Richard Nevell, ‘Plagued by doubt and viral misinformation’, The Lancet: infectious diseases 16 (2016) https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/27873
 * 11) Jens Jungblut and Molly Lee, eds., Wikipedia in higher education: practice what you teach, special issue of Studies in Higher Education 45 (2020) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cshe20/45/5 (£)
 * 12) Thomas Leitch, Wikipedia U: Knowledge, authority and liberal education in the digital age (Baltimore, 2014)
 * 13) Christian Pentzold, 'Fixing the Floating Gap: the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a global memory place', Memory Studies 2 (2009), 255-272
 * 14) Murray Phillips, ‘Wikipedia and History: a worthwhile partnership in the digital era?’, Rethinking History 4 (2016), 1-21 (online)
 * 15) Henriette Roued-Cunliffe, ‘Forgotten history on Wikipedia’, in Participatory Heritage, ed. Henriette Roued-Cunliffe and Andrea Copeland (London, 2017), pp. 67-76
 * 16) Roy Rosenzweig, ‘Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past’, Journal of American History 93 (2006), 117-46
 * 17) Anna Samoilenko et al., '(Don't) Mention the War: a comparison of Wikipedia and Britannica articles on National Histories' (2018), https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186132
 * 18) Matthew Steggle, 'Prospero and plagiarism: early modern studies and rise of Wikipedia', Digital Studies 2 (2010), online
 * 19) Evina Steinová, ‘Innovating Knowledge: Isidore’s Etymologiae in the Carolingian Period’, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 2 (2019), 12–15, https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/21234 : on the connections between a medieval encyclopedia and Wikipedia.
 * 20) Nathaniel Tkacz, 'The Truth of Wikipedia', Digithum 14 (2012), 88-93, online

Also worth a look:


 * Neil Thompson and Douglas Hanley, ‘Science is shaped by Wikipedia: evidence from a randomized control trial’, MIT Sloan Research Paper 5238-17, online
 * For the Germanophones: Thomas Wozniak, ‘Wikipedia im Forschung und Lehre – eine Übersicht’, in Wikipedia und Geschichtswissenschaft, ed. Wozniak, Nemitz and Rohwedder (Oldenbourg, 2015), 33-52 (the rest of the book is also useful), online
 * For the Lusophones: Flávia Florentino Varella and Rodrigo Bragio Bonaldo, 'Negociando autoridades, construindo saberes: a historiografia digital e colaborativa no projeto Teoria da História na Wikipédia', Brazilian Journal of History 2020, online
 * Don Fallis, 'Toward an epistemology of Wikipedia', Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 (2008), 1662-1674
 * Rudolf den Hartogh, The Future of the Past: a case study of the representation of the Holocaust on Wikipedia, 2002-2014, MA thesis, Rotterdam, online
 * Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/cv43p013f
 * Apostolopoulos, Petros (2019) "Producing Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia," Madison Historical Review: Vol. 16, Article 4. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol16/iss1/4
 * Mykola Makhortykh, 'War Memories and Online Encyclopedias: Framing 30 June 1941 in Wikipedia', Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (2017)