Communications of the ACM
Anonymity versus commitment: The dangers ofeducation on the internet
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethics and Information Technology
Information ethics: On the philosophical foundation ofcomputer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
A covenant with transparency: opening the black box of models
Communications of the ACM - Adaptive complex enterprises
Computer Systems and Responsibility: A Normative Look at Technological Complexity
Ethics and Information Technology
The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Technology as empowerment: a capability approach to computer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class
Communications of the ACM - ACM's plan to go online first
Improving Wikipedia's accuracy: Is edit age a solution?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Corporate dynamic transparency: the new ICT-driven ethics?
Ethics and Information Technology
ICT and an NGO: Difficulties in attempting to be extremely transparent
Ethics and Information Technology
Information sharing on social media sites
Computers in Human Behavior
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Wikipedia is known as a free online encyclopedia. Wikipedia uses largely transparent writing and editing processes, which aim at providing the user with quality information through a democratic collaborative system. However, one aspect of these processes is not transparent--the identity of contributors, editors, and administrators. We argue that this particular lack of transparency jeopardizes the validity of the information being produced by Wikipedia. We analyze the social and ethical consequences of this lack of transparency in Wikipedia for all users, but especially students; we assess the corporate social performance issues involved, and we propose courses of action to compensate for the potential problems. We show that Wikipedia has the appearance, but not the reality, of responsible, transparent information production.