Chapter 5 Writing History on Wikipedia: Insights from Wikipedia Editors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 Framing the Production of Historical knowledge on Wikipedia: Policies, Guidelines, Rules, Hierarchy, and History 27
6. Chapter 2 Reconstructing the Distant Past on Wikipedia: The Great Depression and the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 68
7. Chapter 3 Reconstructing the Recent Past on Wikipedia: The Vietnam War and September 11 attacks 114
8. Chapter 4 A Network Analysis of Wikipedia Editors’ Engagement with History: Interests, Identities, Power, and Hierarchy 144
9. Chapter 5 Writing History on Wikipedia: Insights from Wikipedia Editors 192
10. Conclusion 216
11. References 220
12. Index 231