Slides from my 10-minute presentation from Wikipedia's 15th birthday celebration at the Oxford Internet Institute goo.gl/skjCQg

1. Wikipedia and the reconfiguration of expertise
Heather Ford | @hfordsa | www.hblog.org
New Authorities

2. [2006 is] a story about
community and collaboration
on a scale never seen before.
It's about the cosmic
compendium of knowledge
Wikipedia and the million-
channel people's network
YouTube and the online
metropolis MySpace. It's about
the many wresting power from
the few and helping one
another for nothing and how
that will not only change the
world, but also change the
way the world changes.
(Grossman, 2006)

6. Three major changes:
• logics
• new actors/alliances
• new technologies

7. Logics
“a resurgence of the idea that the
collective is all-wise”
J. Lanier (2006)

8. New actors/alliances

9. New technologies

10. Who will watch Wikipedia?