Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past

In early January 2001, as Sanger was trying to think of ways to make it easier for people without formal credentials to contribute to Nupedia, a computer programmer friend told him about the WikiWikiWeb software, developed by the programmer Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s, that makes it easy to cre...

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Published in:The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2006-06, Vol.93 (1), p.117-146
Main Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Encyclopedias
Historians
History
History instruction
Hypertext
Internet
Internet resources
Krowne, Aaron
Learning
Open source
Open source software
Review Essay
Software
United States history
Volunteerism
Websites
Wikipedia
Writing
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Summary:In early January 2001, as Sanger was trying to think of ways to make it easier for people without formal credentials to contribute to Nupedia, a computer programmer friend told him about the WikiWikiWeb software, developed by the programmer Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s, that makes it easy to create or edit a Web page-no coding HTML (hypertext markup language) or uploading to a server needed.
ISSN:0021-8723
1945-2314
1936-0967
DOI:10.2307/4486062