The Most Important Laboratory for Social Scientific and Computing Research in History
Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw
TL;DR
Wikipedia has become the most influential laboratory for social scientific and computing research, profoundly impacting academic scholarship in ways its founders did not anticipate.
Contribution
This paper highlights Wikipedia's role as a groundbreaking platform for social and computational research, emphasizing its historical significance.
Findings
Wikipedia's influence on social science research
Impact on computational research methodologies
Transformation of academic scholarship
Abstract
Wikipedia's founders could not have dreamed they were creating the most important laboratory for social scientific and computing research in history but that is exactly what happened. Hill and Shaw take account of Wikipedia's enormous effect on academic scholarship
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Taxonomy
TopicsWikis in Education and Collaboration · History of Computing Technologies · Digital Humanities and Scholarship