Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Scaling Consensus: Increasing Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination through Documentary Practices
HICSS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
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Editing Wikipedia is certainly not as simple as learning the MediaWiki syntax and knowing where the "edit" bar is, but how do we conceptualize the cultural and organizational understandings that make an effective contributor? We draw on work of literacy practitioner and theorist Richard Darville to advocate a multi-faceted theory of literacy that sheds light on what new knowledges and organizational forms are required to improve participation in Wikipedia's communities. We outline what Darville refers to as the "background knowledges" required to be an empowered, literate member and apply this to the Wikipedia community. Using a series of examples drawn from interviews with new editors and qualitative studies of controversies in Wikipedia, we identify and outline several different literacy asymmetries.