This document discusses several topics related to Wikipedia, including: 1. Issues with increasing the number of editors on Wikipedia and making it more inclusive of diverse groups. Simply making the platform more open is not enough. 2. Case studies of knowledge activism projects in India, such as adding local businesses to Wikipedia and writing about controversial topics like sexual assault and religion. 3. Broader topics around imagining the internet outside the U.S. and how to build communities around open platforms or by engaging existing communities.

1. Failure and Wikipedia: How encyclopedias work

2. On technical mediation
Bruno Latour: On detours and missing masses
In order to accomplish a primary task, one has to undergo a ser
Inserting the political, social and cultural back into the technolog
Also, looking at the cultural produced in conversation with techn

3. Doing Wikipedia in India

4. Of tech communities
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)
Working through gender gap, literacy, internet access, awareness
Imagining the internet: outside the U.S
Badges don't work, the schwag does worse
Do you build communities around platforms or pull from existing c
How do you explain open and free?

5. Wikipedia fails
Goal: to increase number of editors
Result: People yet to be “Wikipedia-worthy”
Encyclopedias and imagined users/consumers
Why WP needs to fail: to reimagine and reconfigure users (subse
The women, the brown, black, queer won't just come if you make
Tech/social – locating human interests, incentive mechanisms and

6. Personal (mis)adventures in knowledge activism
Case 1: Putting local businesses on WP (and mapping them
Case 2: Writing about sexual assault on WP (and translating to la
Case 3: Courting controversies (and writing about religion on WP)

7. Case 1: Local business experiment

8. Case 2: Writing about sexual assault

9. Case 2

10. Case 3: Courting controversies (religion)

11. Fin