Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge

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Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge
Authors
Maja van der Velden
Publication date
2013
DOI
10.1080/10447318.2013.765768
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Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Maja van der Velden.

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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.

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Velden, Maja van der. (2013). "[[Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge]]". Taylor & Francis Group. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2013.765768.

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Velden, Maja van der. (2013). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Decentering_Design:_Wikipedia_and_Indigenous_Knowledge">Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge</a>&quot;. Taylor & Francis Group. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2013.765768.