The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Bipartite networks of Wikipedia's articles and authors: a meso-level approach
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition
The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition
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Theoretical frameworks need to be developed to account for the phenomenon of Wikipedia and writing in Wikis. In this paper, a cognitive framework divides processes into the categories of Cognition for Planning and Cognition for Improvising. This distinction is applied to Wikipedia to understand the many small and the few big edits by which Wikipedia's articles grow. The paper relates the distinction to Lessig' Read-Only and Read-Write, to Benkler's modularity and granularity of contributions and to Turkle and Papert's bricoleurs and planners. It argues that Wikipedia thrives because it harnesses a Cognition for Improvising surplus oriented by kindness and trust towards distant others and proposes that Cognition for Improvising is a determinant mode for the success of Wikis and Wikipedia. The theoretical framework can be a starting point for a cognitive discussion of wikis, peer-produced commons and new patterns of collaboration.