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'''Web 2.0 According to Wikipedia: Capturing an Organizing Vision''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2011, written by [[Arnaud Gorgeon]] and [[E. Burton Swanson]].

== Overview ==
Is Web 2.0 more than a buzzword? In recent years, technologists and others have heatedly debated this question, even in [[Wikipedia]], itself an example of Web 2.0. From the perspective of the present study, Web 2.0 may indeed be a buzzword, but more substantially it is also an example of an organizing vision that drives a community's discourse about certain new Information Technology (IT), serving to advance the technology's adoption and diffusion. Every organizing vision has a career that reflects its construction over time, and in the present study authors examine Web 2.0's career as captured in its Wikipedia entry over a 5-year period, finding that it falls into three distinct periods termed Germination, Growth, and Maturation. The findings reveal how Wikipedia, as a discourse vehicle, treats new IT and its many buzzwords, and more broadly captures the careers of their organizing visions. Too, they further understanding of Wikipedia as a new encyclopedic form, providing novel insights into its uses, its community of contributors, and their editing activities, as well as the dynamics of article construction. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.