Hi folks, I wanted to let you know about The Manifesto for Wikimedia Research which was launched last week https://manifesto.wiki/. Authored by Heather Ford, Bunty Avieson, Francesco Bailo, Michael Davis, Michael Falk, Sohyeon Huang, Andrew Iliad's, Steve Jankowski, Amanda Lawrence and Francesca Sidoti, the manifesto extends the important work done 15 years ago by the Institute for Network Cultures <https://networkcultures.org/> to provide a space for critical research on Wikipedia. As editors of the groundbreaking CPOV (Critical Point of View) Reader<https://networkcultures.org/cpov/reader/>, Geert Lovinck<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Lovink> and Nathaniel Tkacz<https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/tkacz-nathaniel/> articulated in the introduction to the reader, the "C" in "Critical" is not about being negative or dismissive about Wikipedia but rather about taking Wikipedia seriously by asking critical questions about its important place in the world. 15 years later, nurturing a space for Wikipedia researchers, artists and activists in the humanist tradition is more important than ever, as is articulating what questions are important for researchers to answer. Wikipedia's place in the world is different now. In an age where Wikimedia functions as public knowledge infrastructure, new questions are emerging — about open data, public knowledge, the agency of contributors and the outcomes of their labour. We wrote a manifesto to articulate some of those questions and to provide guidance for researchers interested in a more critical approach to Wikipedia/Wikimedia studies.
* There is a PDF of the manifesto<https://manifesto.wiki/> here (https://wikihistories.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/WikiPoster_a3.pdf<https://wikihistories.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/WikiPoster_a3.pdf>) * We also published a commentary about the manifesto on BD&S https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251357292 and * Steve Jankowski has started a Bibliography of humanities and social scientific publications that is useful for critically studying Wikimedia as infrastructure on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Critical_Wikimedia_Research_Bibliography All best, Heather. ARC Future Fellow Professor, University of Technology Sydney<https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Heather.Ford> http://hblog.org LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/hfordsa/> UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
