{"id":49249,"date":"2025-10-31T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=49249"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:35:12","slug":"petros-apostolopoulos-producing-and-debating-history-historical-knowledge-on-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=49249","title":{"rendered":"Petros Apostolopoulos, \u201eProducing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2021, the American Historical Association published a study on how the American public perceives and understands the past. Almost half of the respondents argued that they turn to Wikipedia to learn about history and acquire a historical understanding of the past. Wikipedia was ranked higher than other historical activities, such as \u201cHistoric site visit,\u201d \u201cMuseum visit,\u201d \u201cGenealogy work,\u201d \u201cSocial media,\u201d \u201cPodcast\/radio program,\u201d \u201cHistory lecture,\u201d and \u201cHistory-related video game.\u201d These findings combined with the appropriation of Wikipedia\u2019s corpus by ChatGPT and Wikipedia\u2019s partnership with the most central search engine in the digital world, Google, and other digital assistants, such as Siri and Alexa, make clear how crucial the role of Wikipedia in how the public learns about history and makes sense of the past is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how is historical knowledge produced on Wikipedia? How do Wikipedia editors engage with historical events of the past and transform the past into historical knowledge? Why do they decide to contribute to the production of history? By placing Wikipedia editors at the center of research inquiry and using multiple methodologies and different kinds of data, this book explores how historical knowledge is produced in one of the most central digital communities of knowledge, Wikipedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author \/ Editor information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petros Apostolopoulos<\/strong>, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C\u00b2DH), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frontmatter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledgments<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1 Framing the Production of Historical knowledge on Wikipedia: Policies, Guidelines, Rules, Hierarchy, and History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 2 Reconstructing the Distant Past on Wikipedia: The Great Depression and the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 3 Reconstructing the Recent Past on Wikipedia: The Vietnam War and September 11 attacks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 4 A Network Analysis of Wikipedia Editors\u2019 Engagement with History: Interests, Identities, Power, and Hierarchy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 5 Writing History on Wikipedia: Insights from Wikipedia Editors<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published\/Copyright: 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783111069586\/html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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