ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

ISSN 2562-9948

Wikipedia, Scholarpedia, Citizendium, knol: Open Knowledge Production and Access

In “Making Wikis Work for Scholars,” an article by Andy Guess in the 28 April, 2008, issue of Inside Higher Ed, one begins to see more positive assessments by some scholars of the value of Wikipedia for teaching, with some limitations (some making use of the limitations themselves), some doubts about credibility, and some new […]

Visualizing Online Collaboration, Live

I encountered an interesting application that crosses Google Maps with Wikipedia, and shows you, almost in real time, the geographic origins of the edits being performed in Wikipedia. This can become almost addicting, especially if one starts to look for patterns. I looked for only 10 minutes, possibly less, and noticed that the greatest number […]