Good Faith Collaboration The Culture of Wikipedia

• Main Author: Reagle, Joseph (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2010
• Series: History and Foundations of Information Science
• Subjects: Coding theory & cryptology; Impact of science & technology on society; Information technology: general issues; Library and information services; Information technology: general topics; Impact of science and technology on society
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

How Wikipedia collaboration addresses the challenges of openness, consensus, and leadership in a historical pursuit for a universal encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community-a community of Wikipedians who are expected to "assume good faith" when interacting...