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The Misplaced Pages community is the group of people who edit and volunteer their time to build Misplaced Pages and to select what content in Misplaced Pages is best representative of the project's work. Prominent Wikipedians, as they are known, have commented on the importance of the communal aspects of the project and emphasized it as a major reason to help the project. Members of the community have a variety of incentives to participate. One study attempts to prove that a major incentive to contribute is the resulting prestige and respect within the community, although many wikipedians contribute through pseudonyms and this prestige does not translate into the "real life". The community has certain taboos and guidelines such as strongly disapproving notable members of the community editing their own articles. Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Misplaced Pages has described the Misplaced Pages editors as "The Community," and expanded by saying, "Everywhere I go it's about more or less the same: about 80 percent male, geeky. The geeky smart people." Larry Sanger, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Citizendium and a co-founder of Misplaced Pages, wrote in regard to Misplaced Pages's oft cited problems, that "this arguably dysfunctional community is extremely off-putting to … academics" and as such appears "committed to amateurism."
Open source publishing
According to Misplaced Pages staff, the community works to keep the encyclopedia's articles neutral in tone. The Misplaced Pages community also polices itself and the articles in the encyclopedia, while identifying problems and factual errors. According to Jimmy Wales, the community of the encyclopedia is built on trust, and regular members of the community would not insert disinformation, such as the falsely reported death of actor Sinbad in March 2007. From the community, editors can be promoted to administrative system operator status by a community review by their peers, via a "Requests for adminship" process. The New York Times stated that the community has a power structure, where the volunteer administrators have the authority to practice editorial control, delete articles that fail suitability requirements, and protect others against vandalism.
The New York Times was also quoted as saying, " is not the experiment in freewheeling collective creativity it might seem to be, because maintaining so much openness inevitably involves some tradeoffs...it's an online community that has built itself a bureaucracy of sorts — one that, in response to well-publicised problems with some entries, has recently grown more elaborate."
Collaboration
| The name "Misplaced Pages" has inherently a basic three part meaning: |
| 1) An encyclopedia (the actual body of the collaborative creation). |
| 2) A project (the effort and devotion of energy to that encyclopedia). |
| 3) A community (a diverse group of people interested in that project). |
Misplaced Pages is a 💕 where anyone can edit and is built on consensus.
In an editorial piece by Chris Anderson of the Time magazine, he summarized three little words about editing on Misplaced Pages, "edit this page" and the rest is history.
Policies and guidelines
The community has certain policies and guidelines for Wikipedians to read and adhere to.
Recognition
The communal aspect of Misplaced Pages was recognized in 2004 by the Webby Award for the "community" category and recognized along with YouTube, MySpace and other user generated content sites by Time Magazine in declaring their 2006 Time Person of the Year to be "You".
References
- Misplaced Pages Faces Growing Pains. By Daniel Terdiman. Wired News. Jan, 10, 2005. Article
- News in Science - Best Misplaced Pages pages edited over and over - By Stephen Pincock. 07/03/2007. Article
- You couldn’t make it up: The internet encyclopedia Misplaced Pages is one of the most visited sites on the web. Can you trust it? by Jenny Kleeman. Times Online. March 02, 2007. Article
- ^ Why Do People Write For Misplaced Pages? Incentives To Contribute To Open Source Publishing. By Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman. Article
- The Outlaw Jimmy Wales: Discovering the Man Behind the Monolith That is Misplaced Pages. by Kenneth Musante Adotas. February 21st 2007. Article
- ^ Mehegan, David (February 12, 2006). "Bias, sabotage haunt Misplaced Pages's free world". Business. The Boston Globe. p. 4. Retrieved 2007-03-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Misplaced Pages: Getting to Truth by 'Community'" ABC News, September 12, 2006. Article.
- Larry Sanger. "Toward a New Compendium of Knowledge (longer version)", Citizendium.
- Information Week, Thomas Claburn; Misplaced Pages Becomes Intelligence Tool And Target For Jihadists Article
- Business Week, B.L. Ochman, Misplaced Pages's Not the Net Police. Article
- Associated Press, "Misplaced Pages Falsely Reports Sinbad's Death" Article, March 16, 2007.
- "10 Questions: Jimmy Wales." Time Magazine, March 21, 2007. Article.
- ^ "What's all the fuss about Misplaced Pages?" iTWire, June 18, 2006. Article.
- CNN.com - Misplaced Pages: The know-it-all Web site - From CNN Technology Correspondent Kristie Lu Stout. Aug. 4, 2003. Article
- A Case of Mutual Aid: Misplaced Pages, Politeness, and Perspective Taking. By Joseph M. Reagle Jr. Article
- Studying Cooperation and Conflict with History Flow Visualatios. By Fernada B. Viegas, Martin Wattenburg, and Kushal Dave. Article
- The Webby Awards. And the winners are... The best of 2004. "The only award show for Internet sites that matter." - The Los Angeles Times. Winner of Community Category
- 'You' named Time's person of 2006: "You" have been named as Time magazine's Person of the Year for the growth and influence of user-generated content on the internet. BBC News. Sunday, 17 December 2006. Article
Further reading
- The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web (Paperback). Authors: Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham. Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; Pap/Cdr edition (April 3, 2001). ISBN 020171499X
- Wiki: Web Collaboration (Hardcover). Authors: Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser, Richard Heigl, and G. Dueck. Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 6, 2005). ISBN 3540259953
- Wikis For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) (Paperback). Author: Dan Woods. Publisher: For Dummies (July 10, 2007). ISBN 0470043997
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