Author Subject Wikipedia Pages 312 | Country United States Publication date 2014 | |
Publisher Stanford University Press | ||
Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia is a 2014 book about Wikipedia's community of contributors, by author Dariusz Jemielniak, who is a contributor himself.
Reviews
A reviewer for Vice called the book "both primer and detailed study on the habits of Wikipedians".
A writer for Inside Higher Ed said that the "book offers a management expert's inside view of how it has tried, for better or worse, to arrive at a self-sustaining and novel form of self-management".
In Pacific Standard, the reviewer said the book was "a detailed ethnographic study of a paradoxical culture that is at once egalitarian and hierarchical, rule bound and consensus driven, collaborative and conflict driven".
In Forbes the reviewer gave summaries of concepts covered, including Wikipedia's rule sets, tension between experienced and inexperienced contributors, conflicts between subject matter experts and fact checkers, and the implications of Wikipedia having a large audience.