November 22, 2014
Wikipedia includes articles in 288 languages, and more than 85% of Wikipedia articles are written in languages other than English. Yet while dozens of books about Wikipedia have been published, they all focus on the English Wikipedia and assume an Anglo-Saxon perspective.
Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural Issues in online collaboration, edited by Associate Professors Pnina Fichman and Noriko Hara of the Department of Information and Library Science, is the first book to address the global, multilingual, and multicultural aspects of Wikipedia. The collection explores a range of international and cross-cultural issues, including Wikipedia policy, collaboration, coordination, and conflict management. ‘Culture’ is taken to include gender differences. The national cultural contexts analyzed include Greek, Finnish, Polish, Italian, and Chinese.
The table of contents of the book can be found here.
Fichman, P., & Hara, N., Eds. (2014). Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.