Writing Wikipedia: An online-offline ethnography about Wikipedians
Jörn SchulzTelekom Innovation Laboratories, TU Berlin, Germany
Introduction
Without looking it up, you know where the first Google or Bing search result for various terms like "Social Media" or "Maya calendar" or "Amsterdam" lead you to. Right – to Wikipedia, the biggest (online) encyclopedia the world has ever seen. By the time of writing this paper, the English Wikipedia featured more than four million articles and the German Wikipedia, the second largest language version, over 1.3 million entries. Across all 285 language versions of Wikipedia, a total of over 22 million articles...