So, how did these themes play out over the past year and decade that was?ġ0. Wikipedia is something almost everyone can agree on. Even its controversies usually involve efforts to misappropriate Wikipedia’s reputation for independence and accountability. Wikipedia is a focal point for both the technology industry and the open access world. No other major website has succeeded as a nonprofit, and no other nonprofit has leveraged its authority quite so effectively in the digital space.
Indeed, Wikipedia has much to be proud of over the past ten years. Recently, the progressive website Mother Jones declared Wikipedia a “hero of the 2010s” for being a “a true project of the commons at a political moment when the very idea of the mutual good is under assault.” Wikipedia, to its credit, continued doing just as it always had.
Others fell away entirely: the once-declining number of editors eventually stabilized and even ticked upward, and once-hostile educators learned to love Wikipedia.Įventually, the decade turned: the “ good internet” techno-optimism of the aughts and early 10s gave way to the “fake news” hellscape of the Trump era. Some persisted: Wikipedia’s gender gap, paid editing investigations, and tensions between the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its community. A few themes came and went: Gamergate, Wikipediocracy, and the Knowledge Engine.
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The very first installment of this series arrived in late 2010 as an “easy-to-write, easier-to-read listicle” but within a couple of years had become a multi-chapter mini-essay project delivered with a solemnity not unlike the closing of a particularly bitter RfC. Ten years is a long time-slightly more than half of Wikipedia’s own history up to this point. This blog post marks the tenth consecutive year this website has contemplated the most important events, trends, and phenomena affecting Wikipedia and the wider Wikimedia community over the prior twelve months.
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