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BibTeX citation key: rosenzweig.559
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Rosenzweig Roy (2006). « Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past ». Journal of American History, vol. 93, n° 1, p. 117–146.
Added by: Laure Endrizzi 2006-06-29 11:11:41
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Abstract
History is a deeply individualistic craft. The singly authored work is the standard for the profession; only about 6 percent of the more than 32,000 scholarly works indexed since 2000 in this journal’s comprehensive bibliographic guide, “Recent Scholarship,â€? have more than one author. Works with several authors—common in the sciences—are even harder to find. Fewer than 500 (less than 2 percent) have three or more authors. (...)
A historical work without owners and with multiple, anonymous authors is thus almost unimaginable in our professional culture. Yet, quite remarkably, that describes the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia, which contains 3 million articles (1 million of them in English). History is probably the category encompassing the largest number of articles. (...)
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