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Crowd-authoring is a term coined in 2015 by the Saudi academic Abdul Al Lily. The first use of this term in an article of his in Information Development entitled A Crowd-authoring Project on the Scholarship of Educational Technology. Although there are various non-academic articles about mass-authorship. Al Lily is the first to publish an academic article about ‘Crowd-Authoring’ as a methodology. This methodology is developed based on a two-year empirical experiment wherein 101 scholars from around the world crowded together virtually to negotiate in three rounds their ways of seeing the world and then to capture these thoughts of theirs in a published article. Al Lily believes that, given the well-connected nature of the contemporary age and the increasing value of collective and democratic participation, large-scale multi-authored publications are the way forward for academic fields and wider academia in the 21st century. Crowd-authoring presents the academic enquiry as a negotiable and therefore political process wherein scholars negotiate their comprehension and conceptualisation of a common issue related to a shared profession.

Al Lily has developed four mechanisms that help a large collection of academics collaborate on the authorship of an article:
 * A mechanism for finding a crowd of scholars
 * A mechanism for managing this crowd
 * A mechanism for analysing the input of this crowd
 * A scenario for software that helps automate the process of crowd-authoring

Category:Collaboration