Charleslincolnshire

Charleslincolnshire teaches medieval history in the UK.

Here's a list of 20 readings on Wikipedia and (mostly medieval) history that I find helpful/interesting.

1. Roberto Bianchi, 'History on Wikipedia: a non-neutral World', Public History Weekly 2022
2. Cullen Chandler and Alison Gregory, ‘Sleeping with the enemy: Wikipedia in the College Classroom’, History Teacher 43 (2010), 247-257 , online
3. Jose van Dijck, ‘Wikipedia and the neutrality principle’, in her Culture of Connectivity: A critical history of Social Media (Oxford, 2013)
4. Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, ed., Writing History in the Digital Age (Chicago, 2013). Several excellent essays, available online
5. Heather Ford, ‘How Wikipedia’s silent coup ousted our traditional sources of knowledge’, The Conversation 2016, online (and keep an eye out for her forthcoming book, Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age ).
6. Alaric Hall, ‘How to change (medieval) History’, The Public Medievalist (2019) online
7. David G. Halsted, ‘Accuracy and quality in historical representation: Wikipedia, textbooks and the Investiture Controversy’, Digital Medievalist 9 (2013) DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/dm.50
8. Mike Horswell, ‘Wikipedia and the crusades: constructing and communicating crusading’, in The Crusades and the Modern World: Engaging the Crusades, Volume Two (Abingdon, Routledge: 2019), pp. 111-129
9. Richard Jensen, ‘Military history on the electronic frontier: Wikipedia fights the War of 1812’, Journal of Military History 76 (2012), 523-556 online
10. Lori Jones and Richard Nevell, ‘Plagued by doubt and viral misinformation’, The Lancet: infectious diseases 16 (2016) https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/27873
11. Jens Jungblut and Molly Lee, eds., Wikipedia in higher education: practice what you teach, special issue of Studies in Higher Education 45 (2020) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cshe20/45/5 (£)
12. Thomas Leitch, Wikipedia U: Knowledge, authority and liberal education in the digital age (Baltimore, 2014)
13. Christian Pentzold, 'Fixing the Floating Gap: the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a global memory place', Memory Studies 2 (2009), 255-272
14. Murray Phillips, ‘Wikipedia and History: a worthwhile partnership in the digital era?’, Rethinking History 4 (2016), 1-21 (online)
15. Henriette Roued-Cunliffe, ‘Forgotten history on Wikipedia’, in Participatory Heritage, ed. Henriette Roued-Cunliffe and Andrea Copeland (London, 2017), pp. 67-76
16. Roy Rosenzweig, ‘Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past’, Journal of American History 93 (2006), 117-46
17. Anna Samoilenko et al., '(Don't) Mention the War: a comparison of Wikipedia and Britannica articles on National Histories' (2018), https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186132
18. Matthew Steggle, 'Prospero and plagiarism: early modern studies and rise of Wikipedia', Digital Studies 2 (2010), online
19. Evina Steinová, ‘Innovating Knowledge: Isidore’s Etymologiae in the Carolingian Period’, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte 2 (2019), 12–15, https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/21234 : on the connections between a medieval encyclopedia and Wikipedia.
20. Nathaniel Tkacz, 'The Truth of Wikipedia', Digithum 14 (2012), 88-93, online

Also worth a look:

• Neil Thompson and Douglas Hanley, ‘Science is shaped by Wikipedia: evidence from a randomized control trial’, MIT Sloan Research Paper 5238-17, online
• For the Germanophones: Thomas Wozniak, ‘Wikipedia im Forschung und Lehre – eine Übersicht’, in Wikipedia und Geschichtswissenschaft, ed. Wozniak, Nemitz and Rohwedder (Oldenbourg, 2015), 33-52 (the rest of the book is also useful), online
• For the Lusophones: Flávia Florentino Varella and Rodrigo Bragio Bonaldo, 'Negociando autoridades, construindo saberes: a historiografia digital e colaborativa no projeto Teoria da História na Wikipédia', Brazilian Journal of History 2020, online
• Don Fallis, 'Toward an epistemology of Wikipedia', Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 (2008), 1662-1674
• Rudolf den Hartogh, The Future of the Past: a case study of the representation of the Holocaust on Wikipedia, 2002-2014, MA thesis, Rotterdam, online
• Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/cv43p013f
• Apostolopoulos, Petros (2019) "Producing Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia," Madison Historical Review: Vol. 16 , Article 4. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol16/iss1/4
• Mykola Makhortykh, 'War Memories and Online Encyclopedias: Framing 30 June 1941 in Wikipedia', Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (2017)