This document discusses an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Wikipedia through literary criticism, linguistics, anthropology, and sociolinguistics. It explores post-structuralist thinkers, the relationship between author and reader, and how Wikipedia both promotes certain languages and cultures while also reflecting linguistic variations within those languages through user contributions.
1. An interdisciplinary approach to Wikipedia: literary criticism, linguistics, anthropology and sociolinguistic research. By J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff
34. Cons : too much work and lack of people and administrators; some isolated arguments.
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36. Cons : there are still many topics to write about, some small articles need more attention, and the relationship between different linguistic versions also needs to be improved. There is -luckily- too much work to do!
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39. It has helped to normalize and “keep alive” the Galician language.
42. For ca.wiki to be in the 14 th place regarding the number of articles is quite significant, bearing in mind that Catalan is the 93 rd most spoken language in the world.
45. Other factors, apart from those cultural ones, have played a crucial role (leisure, learning new things, the idea of being part of something “important”, etc)