Dozens of books about Wikipedia are available, but they all focus on the English Wikipedia and assume an Anglo-Saxon perspective, while disregarding cultural and language variability or multi-cultural collaborative efforts. They address the impact of Wikipedia on society, processes of mass knowledge production, and the dynamics of the Wikipedia community. However, none of them focus on Wikipedia's global features. This lack of attention presents a serious problem because more than 80% of Wikipedia articles are written in languages other than English---in fact, Wikipedia includes articles in...
Dozens of books about Wikipedia are available, but they all focus on the English Wikipedia and assume an Anglo-Saxon perspective, while disregarding c...
A collection of twelve papers that provides a review of 21st century social informatics. It includes two papers that review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970s and early '80s and that it emerged in different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the mid-1990s.
A collection of twelve papers that provides a review of 21st century social informatics. It includes two papers that review the history of social info...
