Protests had been planned by democracy activists in the weeks prior to January 25, but no one knew whether anyone would actually show up on the day. His username was The Egyptian Liberal and he was a young Egyptian democracy activist. The Wikipedia editor who wrote the first version of the article about the Egyptian revolution prepared the article the day before the protests were scheduled on the 25th of January 2011. The first agents to understand are the Wikipedians, who are volunteer editors dedicated to the long-term maintenance of the project. Then I trace how those facts move between different places on Wikipedia and the wider Web. In Writing the Revolution, I follow how facts about the 2011 Egyptian revolution were collected on English Wikipedia as events took place on the ground in Egypt during ten days between late January and early February 2011. This has significant consequences for the ways in which history is written and who gets to write winning histories. Unlike any previous encyclopedia, Wikipedia is a venue for knowledge about events that haven’t even finished happening. Listen to the audio version-read by Heather herself-in the Next Big Idea App. She has worked for tech non-profits like Creative Commons, APC and Ushahidi and has been a research fellow at Stanford University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.īelow, Heather shares 5 key insights from her new book, Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age. Heather Ford is a writer and academic who is interested in how digital technology shapes society.
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