Collective Memory Building in Wikipedia: the Case of North African Uprisings

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Collective Memory Building in Wikipedia: the Case of North African Uprisings - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2011, written by Michela Ferron and Paolo Massa.

Overview

Since December 2010, a series of protests and uprisings have shocked North African countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and more. In this paper, focusing mainly on the Egyptian revolution, authors provide evidence of the intense edit activity occurred during these uprisings on the related Wikipedia pages. Thousands of people provided their contribution on the content pages and discussed improvements and disagreements on the associated talk pages as the traumatic events unfolded. Authors propose to interpret this phenomenon as a process of collective memory building and argue how on Wikipedia this can be studied empirically and quantitatively in real time. Authors explore and suggest possible directions for future research on collective memory formation of traumatic and controversial events in Wikipedia.