Hi all. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in discussing a paper I've been working on, which uses Wikipedia to assess questions on authorship and authority in Ancient Historiography.
I don't know where is the best place to upload the draft, though... There's the Academia.edu "sessions" draft, and of course Google docs, but maybe you know some better option? Here's the current paper: Title: Is Livy a good Wikipedian? Authority and authorship in ancient historiography through the lenses of contemporary anonymous writing Abstract: In this paper, I present an experiment conducted in an online environment akin to Wikipedia, where proficient Wikipedia editors evaluate three texts from Livy, presented to them without their knowledge and with different authorship attributions, in order to assess whether Livy's writing would conform to the standards of notability and impartiality on Wikipedia, while aiming also to understand how the influence of different attributions of authorship affects the recognition of authority in history texts. The ultimate goal of this experiment is to demonstrate the interconnection between modes of presentation of literary authority and the construction and need for an authorial persona. The choice of Livy as evaluated author sheds light on traditional topics of Livian scholarship, such as his use of sources and self-presentation, while also indicating differences and similarities in ancient and contemporary historiographical parameters. Although I use Livy as the author for my experiment, my main focus is really on theoretical aspects related to authority and authorship. I've written quite a substantial part on the workings of Wikipedia because I intend to publish for academic readers which are not very knowledgeable about it. I've already detected some methodological issues, so I'm eager to see what others have to say. My current discussion with fellow classicists has been a bit difficult, for as you may imagine, the field is very traditional - to put it nicely. Thank you all, Juliana -- www.domusaurea.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
