How Wikipedia Decides on Who Gets to Contribute Wikipedia Community and Engagement

Beyond the work of policy and platform analysis, this chapter examines some of the Wikipedia community’s struggles in inclusivity and representation. The encyclopedia community has actually been quite good at acknowledging challenges related to systemic social biases related to gender and race and i...

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Published inWikipedia and the Representation of Reality pp. 71 - 88
Main Authors McDowell, Zachary J., Vetter, Matthew A.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2022
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Women Editors
Identity Management Work
Wikipedia Editors
Diverse User Group
Support And Safety
Wikipedia Community
Active Inclusion
Information Literacy
Work In Progress
Wiki Education
Odd
Revenge Porn
Non-binary Individuals
Novice Editors
Follow
Fake
Make Up
Digital Communication Tool
Held
Editing Guideline
Wo
Digital Media Spaces
North
Boundary Work
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Summary:Beyond the work of policy and platform analysis, this chapter examines some of the Wikipedia community’s struggles in inclusivity and representation. The encyclopedia community has actually been quite good at acknowledging challenges related to systemic social biases related to gender and race and its reliance on print-centric epistemologies. Researchers have also examined how harassment of women and trans-identified editors is normalized in the community. Marginalized (gender) identities often take on extra emotional and identity-related labor in order to navigate the spaces to productively contribute to the community. Tracing these issues will help to foreground the contemporary work and promise of the “sum of all human knowledge” and how Wikipedia puts that concept into practice with its community.
ISBN:9780367555719
9780367555702
0367555700
0367555719
DOI:10.4324/9781003094081-4