The free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit: the shifting values of Wikipedia editors

Wikipedia is often held up as an example of the potential of the internet to foster open, free and non-commercial collaboration. However such discourses often conflate these values without recognising how they play out in reality in a peer-production community. As Wikipedia is evolving, it is an ideal time to examine these discourses and the tensions that exist between its initial ideals and the reality of commercial activity in the encyclopaedia. Through an analysis of three failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia, this paper highlights the shift in values from the early editorial community that forked encyclopaedic content over the threat of commercialisation, to one that today values the freedom that allows anyone to edit the encyclopaedia.

Wikipedia: Access and participation in an open encyclopaedia

This thesis explores how people and technologies work together to coordinate and shape participation through a case study of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. The research found participation is shaped by different understandings of openness, where it is constructed as either a libertarian ideal where "anyone" is free to edit the encyclopaedia, or as an inclusive concept that enables "everyone" to participate in the platform. The findings therefore problematise the idea of single user community, and serve to highlight the different and sometimes competing approaches actors employ to enable and constrain participation in Wikipedia.

The Encyclopaedia of missions : descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical : with a full assortment of maps, a complete bibliography, and lists of Bible versions, missionary societies, mission stations, and a general index / edited by Edwin Munsell Bliss.

http://www.archive.org/details/encyclopaediamis02unknuoft

Encyclopaedia of quotations: a treasury of wisdom, wit and humor, odd comparisons and proverbs

UANL

The encyclopaedia britanica : a dictionary of arts, science generalliteratura

UANL

"Deutschland" in der "Encyclopaedia Judaica"

Ernst Simon

Zur Encyclopaedia Judaica [Nachricht]

Jakob Klatzkin

Zur Encyclopaedia Judaica [Nachricht]

Isaak Heinemann

Zum ersten Band der Encyclopaedia Judaica [Rezension] : mit einer Anmerkung über jüdische Bibelwissenschaft

Franz Rosenzweig

Zum zweiten Band der Encyclopaedia Judaica [Rezension] : mit einer Anmerkung über Anthropomorphismus

Franz Rosenzweig

Zum dritten und vierten Band der Encyclopaedia Judaica [Rezension]

Franz Rosenzweig