Wiki Writing

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Adrianne Wadewitz

note this is not wiki wirting rather an a demo of citation software given by Benjamin Mako Hill

One of the questions at the core of Wikipedia is: how can people write together most effectively? Since the nineteenth century, the vision of the "author" in Western culture has been that of an individual toiling away (perhaps in a garret). However, this image has recently been challenged by literary and pedagogical theorists. We have come to realize that texts do not have one meaning and that texts have more than one author. In this paper, through evidence gathered from interviews with editors on the English Wikipedia and wiki-based writing assignments conducted with a composition class, I will attempt to describe collaborative authorship on wikis.