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Tkacz, Nathaniel (2012) La veritat de la Viquipèdia. Digithum : humanities in digital era (Number 14). ISSN 1575-2275.
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Abstract
What does it mean to assert that Wikipedia has a relation to truth? That there is, despite regular claims to the contrary, an entire apparatus of truth in Wikipedia? In this article, I show that Wikipedia has in fact two distinct relations to truth: one which is well known and forms the basis of existing popular and scholarly commentaries, and another which refers to equally well-known aspects of Wikipedia, but has not been understood in terms of truth. I demonstrate Wikipedia’s dual relation to truth through a close analysis of the Neutral Point of View core content policy (and one of the project’s “Five Pillars”). I conclude by indicating what is at stake in the assertion that Wikipedia has a regime of truth and what bearing this has on existing commentaries.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Alternative Title: | The truth of Wikipedia | ||||
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wikipedia, Truth -- Philosophy, Political science -- Philosophy | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Digithum : humanities in digital era | ||||
Publisher: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | ||||
ISSN: | 1575-2275 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Number: | Number 14 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 |
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