Reading: “Good Faith Collaboration” / Samantha Burton

This week's reading is aimed at Joseph M. Reagles Jr´s book on Wikipedia entitled “Good Faith Collaboration” published in 2010 by MIT Press. The reading includes a foreword, prefaces for the print and web versions and a conclusion of the 8th chapter of the book. The texts bring to debate the importance of a project like Wikipedia where no barriers are placed and anyone in good faith is free to cooperate, contributing, therefore, to a culture of collective knowledge. It also discusses the reasons why Wikipedia seems to be doing so well and the criticism and debates involving it.

It was interesting to read about how in the preface for the web edition, we are told by the author how netizens have contributed to this book. Reagle stated that wikipedians underwent translation of it to Japanese, explained how its readers pointed out mistakes that enabled the author to correct things and mentioned its availability online so it would become free to anybody that wanted to read it. To me it resembled something like metalinguistics:  where the author talks about a platform which sustains itself under the values of collectivism through a book that enables its readers to also contribute to its success.

I was wondering, however, if there are any cases to think of in which there should be a limit to what is displayed for collective contributions for the sake of true, reliable information.

Samantha Burton

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