Nicht-propositionales Wissen aus Literaturlekt\"ure und Bedingungen seiner Darstellbarkeit in Wikipedia-Eintr\"agen zu literarischen Werken

TL;DR

This paper explores how Wikipedia can include non-propositional, experiential knowledge from reading fiction, proposing a new concept 'Erlesnis' and experimenting with its presentation in Wikipedia entries to enhance public literary understanding.

Contribution

It introduces the novel concept of 'Erlesnis' to represent non-propositional knowledge from reading and investigates how to incorporate it into Wikipedia articles on fiction.

Findings

Proposed 'Erlesnis' as a formal object for non-propositional knowledge.

Conducted an experiment on de.wikipedia.org regarding 'Erlesnis' inclusion.

Suggested a draft typology of 'Erlesnis'-writing for Wikipedia.

Abstract

(English title) Wikipedia entries on fiction: Under what terms is it possible to report about non-propositional knowledge gained from reading? Given that Wikipedia entries are likely to extert a strong influence on how literary texts are perceived - due to their preferential ranking in Google - there is some demand that research dealing with the transfer of knowledge on literature to the public be more concerned with looking into both the content that is available for free on the Web and any aspect that may come with writing about literature for free. This contribution argues from within Wikipedia's multidisciplinary consensus-driven space in which propositional knowledge is given priority that it would be essential for entries on fiction to present non-propositional knowledge as being one of its hallmarks. For this aim, a special concept is developed that is designed to function as the study's formal object: "Erlesnis" (which in German is a pun that combines "Erlebnis" - adventure experience - and "lesen" - reading). It is defined as non-propositional knowledge that has been acquired in an individual reading process. Writing about one's own Erlesnis in new ways is being tried out in four essays, and on de.wikipedia.org an experiment is conducted to find out what community members think about the idea of including, in entries on fiction, sections specifically designed to report about what people felt like when reading a certain text. Finally, a draft typology of Erlesnis-writing is suggested. This contribution is the first of its kind internationally to deal with Wikipedia from the point of view of transfer of knowledge on literature to the public. For the theory of this field of research some new aspects are offered for debate.