Dear local Wikiholics,

You are cordially invited to join our new reading group on Wikipedia & Knowledge starting next Wednesday at 5:30 pm in the Berkman Center conference room. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reagle/Berkman_Reading_Group

You are welcome to join, even if you can't make all of the future reading groups. If you plan to attend, please be sure to read the to papers we'll be covering Wed: Rawlings on 'Knowledge and Authority' and Zheng&Zhu on 'Group size and incentives' (from zh:wp).

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/mm-f07-rawlings.pdf http://blog.mikezhang.com/files/chinesewikipedia.pdf

Warmly, SJ

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joseph Reagle reagle@cyber.law.harvard.edu

I apologize for the short notice. The first meeting of Wikipedia & Knowledge group will be meeting Wednesday Oct 06 at 5:30 PM. Please feel free to forward to any and all who might be interested.

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Wikipedia and the Institutions/Practices of Knowledge

Meetings          Intermittent Wednesdays at 17:30 (5:30 PM) ET

Location          Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description

Historian Peter Burke argues that the institutions of the university, academy, and scholarly society each arose when its predecessor failed to accommodate new approaches to knowledge production and dissemination; perhaps Wikipedia stands astride another such fault? Hence, this reading group will focus on questions of the sharing and synthesis of knowledge in light of online collaboration, and Wikipedia specifically. We intend to approach this by considering institutions and practices of knowledge production and consumption. (Of course, these are no longer separate and discrete practices, and are described as prosumption, by Tapscott and Williams in their book Wikinomics.)

This reading group will discuss current practice in different fields, engagement of universities in Wikipedia and other broad collaborations, and historical parallels in large-scale synthesis and sharing of knowledge. Participants are welcome to bring stories from their own work and contribute to the reading list.

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