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Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia is a 2014 book about Wikipedia's community of contributors. The author is Dariusz Jemielniak, who is a Wikipedia contributor himself.
- Dariusz Jemielniak
- 2014
Common knowledge is knowledge that is publicly known by everyone or nearly everyone, usually with reference to the community in which the knowledge is referenced. Common knowledge can be about a broad range of subjects, such as science, literature , history, or entertainment . [1]
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The Book of Knowledge was an encyclopedia aimed at juveniles first published in 1912, by the Grolier Society. Originally largely a reprint of the British Children's Encyclopaedia with revisions related to the United States by Holland Thompson, over time the encyclopedia evolved into a new entity entirely.
Published: May 2014. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. The final chapter summarizes the whole book and then discusses why academic circles distrust and dislike Wikipedia. It explains the distrust and dislike as a side effect of a new power-knowledge distribution that challenges the traditional way of producing and delivering expertise.
Notes to Common Knowledge. 1. Thanks to Scott Boorman, Johan van Benthem, and Brian Skyrms, who called our attention on Friedell’s work. 2. Thanks to Alan Hájek for this example, the only example in this section which does not appear elsewhere in the literature. 3.
Vanderschraaf (1997) gives the set-theoretic formulation of Lewis' account of common knowledge reviewed in this paper. 8. This result appears in several articles in the literature, including Monderer and Samet's and Binmore and Brandenburger's articles on common knowledge. 9. I abuse notation slightly, writing ‘ KiK j ( A )’ for ‘ Ki ( K j ( A ))’.
May 14, 2014 · Against a backdrop of misconceptions about its governance, authenticity, and accessibility, Jemielniak delivers the first ethnography of Wikipedia, revealing that it is not entirely at the mercy of the public: instead, it balances open access and power with a unique bureaucracy that takes a page from traditional organizational forms.
