Collective memory building in Wikipedia: The case of North African uprisings

Collective memory building in Wikipedia: The case of North African uprisings
Author(s)	Michela Ferron, Paolo Massa
Published in	WikiSym
Date	2011
Keyword(s)	wikipedia, web 2.0, collective memory, revolutions, traumatic events, Egypt, North Africa (Extra: egyptian revolution, arab spring, history, current events)
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Collective memory building in Wikipedia: The case of North African uprisings is a 2011 conference paper written in English by Michela Ferron, Paolo Massa and published in WikiSym.

Abstract

Since December 2010, a series of protests and uprisings have shocked North African countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and more. In this paper, focusing mainly on the Egyptian revolution, we provide evidence of the intense edit activity occurred during these uprisings on the related Wikipedia pages. Thousands of people provided their contribution on the content pages and discussed improvements and disagreements on the associated talk pages as the traumatic events unfolded. We propose to interpret this phenomenon as a process of collective memory building and argue how on Wikipedia this can be studied empirically and quantitatively in real time. We explore and suggest possible directions for future research on collective memory formation of traumatic and controversial events in Wikipedia.

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This publication has 14 references. Only those references related to wikis are included here:

• "Fixing the floating gap: the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia as a global memory place"

• "Why do people write for Wikipedia? Incentives to contribute to open-content publishing"

• "Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on Wikipedia"

• "WikiChanges: exposing Wikipedia revision activity"

• "Studying collective memories in Wikipedia" (create it!) [search]

• "Exploring Linguistic Points of View of Wikipedia"

• "He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia"

• "When the Wikipedians Talk: Network and Tree Structure of Wikipedia Discussion Pages"

• "Finding social roles in Wikipedia"

• "Wiki-networks: Connections of creativity and collaboration" (create it!) [search]

• "Social networks of Wikipedia"

• "Building a signed network from interactions in Wikipedia"

• "Identifying shared leadership in Wikipedia"

• "Cross-cultural analysis of the Wikipedia community"

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