[CITASA] Wikipedia Expertise

[Barry Wellman]

Judd,

Much of the stuff like that is in Phoebe Ayers, et al's _How Wikipedia
Works_. NoStarch Press. (COI: I have a blurb on the back cover).

What that book doesn't cover as much is what I think is more important
for social scientists to cover:
The interpersonals -- dealing with trolls (Do Not Feed), Vandals,
Political folks (who show up in music articles as well as Palin or Obama
-- there are wars about rock folks), Edit Wars (and the 3 Revert Rules).

 Barry Wellman
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Judd Antin wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:23:39 -0800
> From: Judd Antin <jantin at ischool.berkeley.edu>
> To: citasa at list.citasa.org
> Subject: [CITASA] Wikipedia Expertise
>
> CITASA,
>
> Hello! As part of a class I'm helping to teach this semester, I'm
> looking at what specific knowledge is part of 'expertise' on Wikipedia.
> For pedagogical purposes, I'm creating a kind of 'Wikipedia Quiz' that
> contains simple true/false or multiple choice questions about things
> that more experienced users on Wikipedia might know.
>
> For example, one question I've thought of is:
>
> How far back in the edit history of a Wikipedia article is it possible
> to browse?
> a.	The last six months
> b.	The last year
> c.	Since the last major revision
> d.	Since the creation of the article
> e.	I don’t know
>
> Anyway, I thought there are many knowledgeable CITASA folks out there
> who might share their thoughts, brainstorm a bit on other nuggets,
> nuts-and-bolts type pieces of information that one might learn through
> experience with Wikipedia.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all ideas!
>
> --Judd
>
> --
> Judd Antin
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