| Good Faith Collaboration | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Joseph M. Reagle Jr. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 978-0-262-01447-2 |
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a 2010 book by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. (a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School), published by MIT Press.[1][2] The foreword is by Lawrence Lessig.
Good Faith Collaboration is based on Reagle's PhD dissertation.[3] The book is a study of the history of Wikipedia, its real life and theoretical precursors, and the culture which has developed around it. Reagle explores the history of collaboration, touching on the methods of the Quakers, the World Brain envisaged by H. G. Wells and Paul Otlet's Universal Repository.[4][5]
The book received a positive review from Cory Doctorow, who said that Reagle "offers a compelling case that Wikipedia's most fascinating and unprecedented aspect isn't the encyclopedia itself – rather, it's the collaborative culture that underpins it: brawling, self-reflexive, funny, serious, and full-tilt committed to the project."[6]
In August 2011, Reagle was a keynote speaker at the Wikimania conference in Haifa, Israel.[7] In September 2011 the Web edition of the book was released under a Creative Commons license.
1895 - Otlet’s Permanent Encyclopedia: liberating ideas from the binding of books.
1936 - Wells’s World Brain: a vision of a worldwide encyclopedia using microfilm.
1945 - Bush’s memex: a vision of a hyper-textual knowledge space and new forms of encyclopedias.
1965 - Nelson’s Xanadu: a vision of hypertext.
1971 - Hart’s Project Gutenberg: a vision of providing ebooks through achievable means (“plain vanilla ASCII”).
1980s - Academic American Encyclopedia is made available in an online experiment; multimedia CD-ROMs soon follow.
1991 - Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web: a vision of highly accessible read/write.
1993 - Interpedia: an ambiguous vision lost among too many infrastructural options.
1995 - Cunningham’s WikiWikiWeb: making the Web easy to collaboratively edit.
1999 - Distributed Encyclopedia: many people should contribute independent essays that could be centrally indexed.
1999 - Stallman’s “The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource.”
2000 - Distributed Proofreaders: distributing the task of proofreading among many.
2000 (March 9) - Nupedia launched: a FOSS-inspired expert-driven free encyclopedia.
2001 (January 10) - “Let’s make a Wiki.”
2001 (January 15) - www.wikipedia.com launched.
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