Wikipedia - Collaborative Peer Production

This blog aims to demonstrate and problematize the potential of collaborative peer production through the Wikipedia article on the political movement "Taiwan independence".

22.5.07

Wikipedians are volunteers, they gain no authorship to their contributions and are not recognised for individual efforts. With all articles on Wikipedia, including “Taiwan independence”, no Wikipedian have authorship to any part of the content despite the time and effort they have spent on researching and creating the information. It is often difficult for users to prove their contribution to the article unless they open an older, out of date, archived version. It could also causes disputes between users in regards to who did what. As the article is often altered, Wikipedians may delete some content, and put up similar content, taking the edit as their own contribution. Users of Wikipedia may also plagiarise the work of other academics, as there are no strict requirements of referencing when posting information.

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