Good Faith Collaboration
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Author | Joseph M. Reagle Jr. |
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Language | English |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Publication date
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2010 |
Pages | 256 |
ISBN | 978-0-262-01447-2 |
Followed by | Reading the Comments |
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a 2010 book by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. that deals with the topic of Wikipedia. The book was first published on August 27, 2010 through the MIT Press and has a foreword by Lawrence Lessig.[1][2]
Synopsis
Good Faith Collaboration is based on Reagle's PhD dissertation.[3] The book is a study of the history of Wikipedia, its real life and theoretical precursors, and the culture which has developed around it. Reagle explores the history of collaboration, touching on the methods of the Quakers, the World Brain envisaged by H. G. Wells and Paul Otlet's Universal Repository.[4][5]
Reception
The book received a positive review from Cory Doctorow, who said that Reagle "offers a compelling case that Wikipedia's most fascinating and unprecedented aspect isn't the encyclopedia itself – rather, it's the collaborative culture that underpins it: brawling, self-reflexive, funny, serious, and full-tilt committed to the project."[6]
In August 2011, Reagle was a keynote speaker at the Wikimania conference in Haifa, Israel.[7] In September 2011, the Web edition of the book was released[8] under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
See also
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External links
- Online copy of Good Faith Collaboration—Web-based open content book released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license
- Official website
- Good Faith Collaboration at Google Books
- Good Faith Collaboration in the Library of Congress Online Catalog
- Book review by R. Stuart Geiger, at the Wikipedia Signpost (dated 4 October 2010)