The document discusses Wikipedia as more than just an encyclopedia, highlighting its role as a cultural reference and a networked content platform influenced by various factors such as quality, bias, and its relationship with Google. A comparison of Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica reveals both contain factual errors, but Wikipedia's community actively works to correct them quickly. Additionally, the study explores how Wikipedia articles can reflect national viewpoints and how its data can be analyzed for research purposes.

1. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT (ONLY) AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
PROF. RICHARD ROGERS

2. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA?
R. Margritte, 1928-29
It is a representation of an encyclopedia
M. Foucault, 1983
It cannot be reduced to an encyclopedia

3. WIKIPEDIA STUDIES
Wikipedia is compared to Encyclopedia Brittanica. Quality; bias.
Publicity management tool.
As an abnormally vigilant community of free-labourers.
As a bureaucracy and as stigmergy.
As having a relationship with Google.
Wikipedia as object of study
As as 'cultural reference' representing 'national points of view'

4. WIKIPEDIA STUDIES
>Wikipedia is compared to Encyclopedia Brittanica. Quality; bias.
Publicity management tool.
As an abnormally vigilant community of free-labourers.
As a bureaucracy and as stigmergy.
As having a relationship with Google.
Wikipedia as object of study
As as 'cultural reference' representing 'national points of view'

5. WIKIPEDIA / BRITANNICA
COMPARISON
Nature conducted a peer review of 42 entries from Wikipedia and the
Encyclopedia Britannica. The results:
Only eight serious errors, such as misinterpretations of important
concepts, were detected in the pairs of articles reviewed, four from
each encyclopaedia. But reviewers also found many factual errors,
omissions or misleading statements: 162 and 123 in Wikipedia and
Britannica, respectively.
Jim Giles, "Internet encyclopedias go head to head," Nature 438, 900-901, 2005.

7. WIKIPEDIA STUDIES
Wikipedia is compared to Encyclopedia Brittanica. Quality; bias.
>Publicity management tool.
As an abnormally vigilant community of free-labourers.
As a bureaucracy and as stigmergy.
As having a relationship with Google.
Wikipedia as object of study
As 'networked content' co-authored by bots and
as 'cultural reference'

8. WIKISCANNER - THE
CULTURE OF 'OUTING'
Griffith's WikiScanner FAQ:
_The tool's database contains "34,417,493 anonymous [Wikipedia] edits
dating from February 7th, 2002 to August 4th, 2007."
_Database is constructed "by extracting all anonymous edits from the
publicly available Wikipedia database dump (monthly release)."
_WikiScanner uses ip2location database that has "2,668,095 different
organizations."
WikiScanner - De-anonymizing edits to Wikipedia with database mash-up

11. WIKIPEDIA STUDIES
Wikipedia is compared to Encyclopedia Brittanica. Quality; bias.
Publicity management tool.
>As an abnormally vigilant community of free-labourers.
>As a bureaucracy and as stigmergy.
As having a relationship with Google.
Wikipedia as object of study
As 'networked content' co-authored by bots and
as 'cultural reference'

12. WIKIPEDIANS AS VIGILANT,
FREE LABORERS
The editors of Wikipedia are highly vigilant, and able to make
revert, maintain and clean up at great speed.
"I went, I changed, they conquered." - Alex Halavais describing
error insertion experiment (2004)
Jon Udell's Heavy Metal Umlaut movie, when he is amazed that
vandalism was reverted sometimes only seconds after vandal edit
How is it often studied? As abnormally vigilant workers

17. WIKIPEDIA AS RELATED
TO GOOGLE
The editors of Wikipedia ground the name and existence of subject in
Google results.
95% of Wikipedia articles in top ten results in Google.
(English-language Wikipedia)
Google's knowledge graph makes sue of Wikipedia content, and
supposedly depresses traffic to the onine encyclopedia.
How to characterise Wikipedia's relationship with Google?

19. WIKIPEDIA AS NETWORKED
CONTENT
The top editors of Wikipedia are bots, followed by humans (with
software that sends alerts).
Capture Wikipedia data, and enquire into the technicity of content.
How dependent is Wikipedia on non-humans?
How else may it be studied? As networked content

21. WIKIPEDIA AS
CULTURAL REFERENCE
As articles mature, they may express a national as opposed to
neutral point of view. Neutral to whom?
How to have language Wikipedia versions show cultural reference?
Wikipedia as research tool? Studying the politics of memory

26. WIKIPEDIA AS
CULTURAL REFERENCE
Compare article elements and determine their distinctiveness:
- title
- authors (or editors plus location)
- table of contents
- references
- images
Also features native to Wikipedia:
- location of the anonymous editors (based on IP address)
- templates, revision history and talkpages
Method for the study of Wikipedia as cultural reference

28. Referenced hosts in the Srebrencia articles per Wikipedia language version, colored
by frequency, and ordered by frequency and by alphabet, 20 December 2010
1 2 3 4 5 6
Serbian Bosnian Dutch Croatian Serbo-Croatian English
un.org un.org un.org un.org un.org un.org
srebrenica.ba srebrenica.ba icty.org srebrenica.ba srebrenica.ba srebrenica.ba
icty.org ic-mp.org groene.nl icty.org
srebrenica-
zepa.ba
icty.org
bosnia.org.uk idc.org.ba vandiepen.com bosnia.org.uk srebrenica.nl bosnia.org.uk
guardian.co.uk srebrenica-zepa.ba books.google.nl guardian.co.uk vladars.net guardian.co.uk
ic-mp.org helsinki.org.yu
dutchbat.luchtmobiel.
nl
icj-cij.org ic-mp.org
icj-cij.org hlc.org.yu dutchbat1.com idc.org.ba icj-cij.org
iwpr.net ogrish.com
emperors-
clothes.com
iwpr.net idc.org.ba
news.bbc.co.uk sense-agency.com nu.nl news.bbc.co.uk iwpr.net
nytimes.com vladars.net ochtenden.nl nytimes.com news.bbc.co.uk
ohr.int dzemat-oberhausen.de volkskrant.nl ohr.int nytimes.com
srebrenica-zepa.ba inzl.unsa.ba vreme.com ohr.int
vreme.com preventgenocide.org balkaninsight.com vreme.com
128.121.186.47
srebrenica-
genocide.blogspot.com
bim.ba 128.121.186.47
b92.net zeneucrnom.org domovina.net b92.net
helsinki.org.yu edition.cnn.com balkaninsight.com
hlc.org.yu europarl.europa.eu bim.ba
news.independent.co.u
k
independent.co.uk domovina.net
ogrish.com newsweek.com edition.cnn.com
reuters.com pbs.org europarl.europa.eu
slobodan-milosevic.org potocarimc.ba groene.nl

29. Burial of 465 identified Bosniaks,
Potočari, 2007.
Map of the Srebrenica military
operations, made by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, with green
arrow showing the route of the
Bosnian forces.
Map of the location of Srebrenica,
the Republika Srpska,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial and
Cemetery, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Grave of a 13-year old Bosniak boy.
Ratko Mladic.
An exhumed body with blindfold
and hands tied behind his back. As of
September 2012, the photo has been
removed from Wikipedia article.
Exhumed grave of victims, 2007.
Podrinje Identification Project's
facility for storing, processing, and
handling exhumed remains..
"UN left 8,000 to die in Bosnia."
Headline in The Independent,
30 October 1995.
Satellite photo of Nova Kasaba
mass grave.
International Criminal Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia, Den Haag,
the Netherlands.
Srebrenica Genocide Memorial
Stone at Potočari, with the victim
count of 8,372.
Skull exhumed outside
of Potočari, July 2007.
Wall of names at the Srebrenica
Genocide Memorial.
War-damaged buildings
in Srebrenica.
The Bosniak enclaves of Srebrenica
and Zepa, declared safe areas by the
U.N. in 1993.
DUTCH ENGLISH BOSNIAN CROATIAN SERBIAN
SERBO-
CROATIAN

31. WIKIPEDIA STUDIES
Wikipedia is compared to Encyclopedia Brittanica. Quality; bias.
Publicity management tool.
As an abnormally vigilant community of free-labourers.
As a bureaucracy and as stigmergy.
As having a relationship with Google.
Wikipedia as object of study
As 'cultural reference' representing 'national points of view'