Week 7: The Collaborative Web

February 28

Read and Discuss:

• Marshall Poe, “The History of Wikipedia“
• Roy Rosenzweig, “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.“
• Sage Ross, “We Cannot Allow a Wikipedia Gap!“
• Timothy Messer-Kreuse, “The ‘Undue Weight of Truth’ on Wikipedia“
• Making History: Wikipedia as Pedagogical and Public Intervention

View:  Heavy Metal Umlaut: the Movie

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Blog post: analyze three related Wikipedia pages (they can be on WWI or a subject of your choice).  Discuss the debates that are raised in their “talk” sections.

Optional: experiment with editing or creating a Wikipedia entry.  For some tips on how to do this see:

Start page for texted-based instructions for editing in Wikipedia

Start page for video-based instructions for editing in Wikipedia