• "Enlisting 'Vertues Noble & Excelent': Behavior, Credit, and Knowledge Organization in the Social Edition"

    Author(s):
    Alyssa Arbuckle (see profile) , Constance Crompton, Ray Siemens
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, Feminist Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Sixteenth century, Digital humanities
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Devonshire Manuscript, social knowledge creation, wikipedia, 16th century
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6FR3W
    Abstract:
    A part of the special issue of DHQ on feminisms and digital humanities, this paper takes as its starting place Greg Crane’s exhortation that there is a "need to shift from lone editorials and monumental editions to editors ... who coordinate contributions from many sources and oversee living editions." In response to Crane, the exploration of the "living edition" detailed here examines the process of creating a publicly editable edition and considers what that edition, the process by which it was built, and the platform in which it was produced means for editions that support and promote gender equity. Drawing on the scholarship about the culture of the Wikimedia suite of projects, and the gendered trolling experienced by members of our team in the production of the Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript in Wikibooks, and interviews with our advisory group, we argue that while the Wikimedia projects are often openly hostile online spaces, the Wikimedia suite of projects are so important to the contemporary circulation of knowledge, that the key is to encourage gender equity in social behavior, credit sharing, and knowledge organization in Wikimedia, rather than abandon it for a more controlled collaborative environment for edition production and dissemination.
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    Pub. Date:
    2015
    Journal:
    Digital Humanities Quarterly
    Volume:
    9
    Issue:
    2
    ISSN:
    1938-4122
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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