Journal of American History (June 2006)
editRoy Rosenzweig (June 2006). "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past". The Journal of American History. 93 (1): 117–146.
Findings
edit- "History is probably the category encompassing the largest number of articles", but the collaborative editing makes it unlike virtually any other scholarly work in that field.
- Wikipedia articles have numerous authors, many of whom may be anonymous, and there is no expectation that their names are used when discussing their articles.
- "This extraordinary freedom and cooperation make Wikipedia the most important application of the principles of the free and open-source software movement to the world of cultural, rather than software, production."
- The freedom of reuse allowed by open licensing of content is an important advantage for educational uses.