As a new model and platform of knowledge production emerging in the internet age, the rise of Wikipedia is undoubtedly of epochal significance. Its collaborative, pluralistic, open, egalitarian, de-monopolized, and de-nationalized modes of editing and compilation have, to a certain extent, reshaped the cartography of human knowledge and modes of cognition, making it a subject of immense research value.
The three-volume work The Politics of Wikipedia, compiled over a d...
“One of the core beliefs of the Wiki world is that whatever problems exist in the Wiki will be gradually corrected over time as the process unfolds.”
My response is simple: this so-called “core belief” is not one I hold, and to my knowledge, it is not held by any important or distinguished Wikipedian either.
We do not hold any particular faith in the collective or collectivism as a mode of writing. The authors of Wikipedia, just like elsewhere, exercise their own indiv...