Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge
Authors | Maja van der Velden |
|---|---|
Publication date | 2013 |
DOI | 10.1080/10447318.2013.765768 |
Links | Original |
Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Maja van der Velden.
Overview
This article is a reflection on the case of Wikipedia, the largest online reference site with 23 million articles, with 365 million readers, and without a page called Indigenous knowledge. A Postcolonial Computing lens, extended with the notion of decentering, is used to find out what happened with Indigenous knowledge in Wikipedia. Wikipedia's ordering technologies, such as policies and templates, play a central role in producing knowledge. Two designs, developed with and for Indigenous communities, are introduced to explore if another Wikipedia's design is possible.
