User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Wikipedia an evolving conceptual framework

Wikipedia, an evolving conceptual framework

""Making Wikipedia more plural and diverse in terms of who edits and what they edit is one of the most effective ways in which we can move beyond the stereotypes that exist all around us. There is something very, very meaningful about this moment in time.""

- Anasuya Sengupta, "an activist from Bangalore who, until 2015, served as chief grant-making officer for the Wikimedia Foundation, which funds the operations of Wikipedia."

By December 2016 Wikipedia "Wikipedia executives and community members say that making history more inclusive is a slow process still" and the site still reflected "pervasive gender bias" and contained "inaccuracies".

""Wikipedia has no real person in charge—it’s sort of like a tragedy of the commons problem...The person willing to make the biggest jerk out of himself oftentimes wins.""

- William Beutler, a Wikipedia contributor who runs a marketing consulting firm in Washington and advises clients such as Verizon and engineering giant Bechtel on interacting with Wikipedia

In their presentation at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in 2008, Butler and Pike proposed and applied a "conceptual framework for understanding the natures and roles of policies in wikis." They concluded that "wikis are capable of supporting a broader range of structures and activities than other collaborative platforms. Wikis allow for and, in fact, facilitate the creation of policies that serve a wide variety of functions." They noted that Wikipedia infrastructures are emergent, collective, highly flexible and open and that operational rules and policies in Wikipedia are multi-faceted."

Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities
Diana Strassmann, User:DStrassmann, Chair of the Wiki Education Foundation and Rice University Economics professor organizes courses in which small numbers of students improve existing Wikipedia articles, with one student editing and others reviewing. For example, one student edited Textile industry in Bangladesh, and others reviewed it on the article's Talk page.

Wikipedia hoax (2008)
In 2008, Professor T. Mills Kelly offered a course entitled "Lying about the at George Mason University in which he encouraged students to create hoaxes on Wikipedia.   In 2012 Wikipedia administrators raised questions about the course's situational ethics, however, as some claimed that Professor Kelly legitimized Wikipedia vandalism. The course is no longer offered however, as of February 2015 Professor Mills continues to delve into topics dealing with editing and/or manipulating Wikipedia in his digital history class at George Mason University. Professor Kelly never expressed regret in this matter, "I don't think there were any real victims here", he blogged: I will also continue to teach Lying About the Past. Given the ubiquitous nature of Wikipedia in the information landscape, I think it's fair to say that whenever I teach the course again, Wikipedia will be a part of it some way, some how.

Wikipedia protocol

 * Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Selected webliography