Decentering Design: Wikipedia and Indigenous Knowledge

作者:van der Velden Maja*
来源:International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2013, 29(4): 308-316.
DOI:10.1080/10447318.2013.765768

摘要

This article is a reflection on the case of Wikipedia, the largest online reference site with 23 million articles, with 365 million readers, and without a page called Indigenous knowledge. A Postcolonial Computing lens, extended with the notion of decentering, is used to find out what happened with Indigenous knowledge in Wikipedia. Wikipedia's ordering technologies, such as policies and templates, play a central role in producing knowledge. Two designs, developed with and for Indigenous communities, are introduced to explore if another Wikipedia's design is possible.

  • 出版日期2013-3-1