Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia

摘要

Wikipedia, as defined by both Michael Reagle and Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Harvard Law School, who wrote the foreword to this book, is a community formed by collaboration. (In my opinion, this is true of all communities in human history.) A technical communicator is more apt to think of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia of useful facts. That also was Reagle's initial impression as he used the tool extensively for his graduate school research on Wikipedia. Because of his research interest, he eventually "found Wikipedia to be a compelling site for the study of collaboration" (p. xiii). This insight became the foundation for Good Faith Collaboration.