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| + | | title = The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia | ||
| + | | date = 2012 | ||
| + | | authors = [[Morgan Currie]] | ||
| + | | doi = 10.1057/9780230371934_13 | ||
| + | | link = https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9780230371934_13 | ||
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'''The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2012, written by [[Morgan Currie]]. | '''The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2012, written by [[Morgan Currie]]. | ||
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
Research on [[Wikipedia]] often compares its articles to print references such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a resource historically associated with depoliticised content, neutrality, and the desire to catalogue the external world objectively.Yet Wikipedia, the free-content, openly editable, online encyclopedia, evolves out of a process whereby multiple perspectives, motives, compromises, and protocols determine the present version of an article. Using controversy as an epistemological device, can authors explore Wikipedia to map editors’ concerns around an issue? Can authors observe how the mechanics of controversy regulation affect the quality of an article? | Research on [[Wikipedia]] often compares its articles to print references such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a resource historically associated with depoliticised content, neutrality, and the desire to catalogue the external world objectively.Yet Wikipedia, the free-content, openly editable, online encyclopedia, evolves out of a process whereby multiple perspectives, motives, compromises, and protocols determine the present version of an article. Using controversy as an epistemological device, can authors explore Wikipedia to map editors’ concerns around an issue? Can authors observe how the mechanics of controversy regulation affect the quality of an article? | ||
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Authors | Morgan Currie |
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Publication date | 2012 |
DOI | 10.1057/9780230371934_13 |
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The Feminist Critique: Mapping Controversy in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Morgan Currie.
Overview
Research on Wikipedia often compares its articles to print references such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a resource historically associated with depoliticised content, neutrality, and the desire to catalogue the external world objectively.Yet Wikipedia, the free-content, openly editable, online encyclopedia, evolves out of a process whereby multiple perspectives, motives, compromises, and protocols determine the present version of an article. Using controversy as an epistemological device, can authors explore Wikipedia to map editors’ concerns around an issue? Can authors observe how the mechanics of controversy regulation affect the quality of an article?
