Lovink, GeertTkacz, Nathaniel2023-02-172023-02-172011978-90-78146-13-1https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-point-of-view-a-wikipedia-reader/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20462For millions of internet users around the globe, the search for new knowledge begins with Wikipedia. The encyclopedia’s rapid rise, novel organization, and freely offered content have been marveled at and denounced by a host of commentators. Critical Point of View moves beyond unflagging praise, well-worn facts, and questions about its reliability and accuracy, to unveil the complex, messy, and controversial realities of a distributed knowledge platform. The essays, interviews and artworks brought together in this reader form part of the overarching Critical Point of View research initiative, which began with a conference in Bangalore (January 2010), followed by events in Amsterdam (March 2010) and Leipzig (September 2010). With an emphasis on theoretical reflection, cultural difference and indeed, critique, contributions to this collection ask: What values are embedded in Wikipedia’s software? On what basis are Wikipedia’s claims to neutrality made? How can Wikipedia give voice to those outside the Western tradition of Enlightenment, or even its own administrative hierarchies? Critical Point of View collects original insights on the next generation of wiki-related research, from radical artistic interventions and the significant role of bots to hidden trajectories of encyclopedic knowledge and the politics of agency and exclusion.<ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=7'>Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz: <i>The ‘C’ in CPOV: Introduction to the CPOV Reader</i></a></li> </ul> <h4> ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=10'>Joseph Reagle: <i>The Argument Engine</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=20'>Dan O’Sullivan: <i>What is an Encyclopedia? From Pliny to Wikipedia</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=28'>Lawrence Liang: <i>A Brief History of the Internet from the 15th to the 18th Century</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=34'>Amila Akdag Salah, Cheng Gao, Krzystztof Suchecki, and Andrea Scharnhorst: <i>Generating Ambiguities: Mapping Category Names of Wikipedia to UDC Class Numbers</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>COMPUTATIONAL CULTURES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=42'>R. Stuart Geiger: <i>The Lives of Bots</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=50'>Nathaniel Tkacz: <i>The Politics of Forking Paths</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=58'>Edgar Enyedy and Nathaniel Tkacz: <i>‘Good luck with your wikiPAIDia’: Reflections on the 2002 Fork of the Spanish Wikipedia. An interview with Edgar Enyedy</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=62'>Peter B. Kaufman: <i>Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=72'>Johanna Niesyto: <i>A Journey from Rough Consensus to Political Creativity: Insights from the English and German Language Wikipedias</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=82'>Hans Varghese Mathews: <i>Outline of a Clustering Procedure and the Use of its Output</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>INTERVENTIONS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=85'>Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern: <i>Wikipedia Art: Citation as Performative Act</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=98'>Nicholas Carr: <i>Questioning Wikipedia</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=104'>Alan N. Shapiro: <i>Diary of a Young Wikipedian</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=113'>Florian Cramer: <i>A Brechtian Media Design: Annemieke van der Hoek’s Epicpedia</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=116'>Patrick Lichty: <i>Digital Anarchy, Social Media, and WikiLeaks</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>POLITICS OF EXCLUSION</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=121'>Maja van der Velden: <i>When Knowledges Meet: Wikipedia and Other Stories from the Contact Zone</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=132'>Heather Ford: <i>The Missing Wikipedians</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=137'>Mark Graham: <i>Wiki Space: Palimpsests and the Politics of Exclusion</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=144'>Gautam John: <i>Wikipedia in India: Past, Present and Future</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=147'>Dror Kamir and Johanna Niesyto: <i>User DrorK: A Call for a Free Content Alternative for Sources. An interview with Dror Kamir</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>POLITICS & HUMAN RIGHTS</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=137'>Sam Gregory: <i>Cameras Everywhere: Ubiquitous Video Documentation of Human Rights, New Forms of Video Advocacy, and Considerations of Safety, Security, Dignity and Consent</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=144'>Elizabeth Losh: <i>Shooting for the Public: YouTube, Flickr, and the Mavi Marmara Shootings</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>GOVERNANCE & AUTHORITY</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=151'>Andrew Famiglietti: <i>The Right to Fork: A Historical Survey of De/centralization in Wikipedia</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=157'>Matheiu O’Neil: <i>Wikipedia and Authority</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=165'>Mayo Fuster Morell: <i>The Wikimedia Foundation and the Governance of Wikipedia’s Infrastructure: Historical Trajectories and its Hybrid Character</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=174'>Christian Stegbauer and Morgan Currie: <i>Cultural Transformations in Wikipedia – or ‘From Emancipation to Product Ideology’. An interview with Christian Stegbauer</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=178'>Shun-ling Chen: <i>The Wikimedia Foundation and the Self-governing Wikipedia Community: A Dynamic Relationship Under Constant Negotiation</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>APPENDICES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=189'> <i>CPOV Conferences</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20462/INC-Reader_7_Lovink-Tkacz_2011_Critical-Point-of-View_.pdf#page=192'> <i>Author Biographies</i></a></li>engWikipediaEncyclopediaInternetKnowledgePlatform30010.25969/mediarep/19287