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Wikipedia's three big fights: What knowledge counts?

Wikipedia's three big fights: What knowledge counts?

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Wikipedia promised to be the sum of all human knowledge. Then the fighting started.Host Heather Ford and writer Richard Cooke walk through three of Wikipedia's biggest fight. Not the daily edit wars over the spelling of yoghurt, but the fights over what Wikipedia is, and whose knowledge gets to be part of it.There are more than 300 language versions of Wikipedia. So why does everyone treat the English one as the real one?A game played by millions of people can't get a Wikipedia page.And two warring camps of editors, with very nerdy names, quietly decide what deserves to exist on Wikipedia. One side almost always wins.Three fights. All of them shaping what you learn from the world's biggest encyclopedia.VoicesHeather Ford is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Communication and Social Sciences at UTS. She is the author of “Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age” published by MIT Press.Richard Cooke is an author, reporter and screenwriter. The author of three books, he is the former US correspondent and current contributing editor to the The Monthly magazine. His latest book is The Last Best Place On The Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia.Achal Prabhala is a writer, researcher, and activist based in Bangalore, India, whose work spans two decades and two intersecting causes: access to medicines in the Global South, and the politics of knowledge. Prabhala runs the AccessIBSA project, which is an inter-disciplinary campaign for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa. He served on the Wikimedia Foundation's advisory board from 2006 and was an advisor on the Whose Knowledge? campaign.Florence Devouard is a speaker and independent digital strategy consultant, and she facilitate the discovery of and participation in Wikimedia projects through conferences, seminars, and training sessions on wiki software, Wikipedia, online communities, collaboration, and knowledge management. In 2006 she was President of the Wikimedia Foundation. Since 2008, she has served on the Wikimedia Foundation's Advisory Board.Research linksOpeningIndigenous games Australian Government: Australian Sports CommissionFight #1 English Wikipedia as the ‘invisible centre’WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions (arXiv 2025) argues that although Wikipedia is architecturally multilingual and aspires to provide knowledge to "every single person on the planet in their own language," its design and community practices systematically privilege English content, and at the interface level this dynamic obscures cross-linguistic differences.How is Wikipedia funded? (Wikimedia Foundation 2025) Wikipedia is funded primarily through single or monthly donations from millions of individuals around the world. Each year, around 2,000 individuals and institutions make donations of above $1,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation.Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age (MIT Press 2022) An extended case study by Heather Ford of English Wikipedia functioning as the venue where the globally authoritative account of a non-Anglophone event, the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, gets negotiated.“What an un-wiki way of doing things”: Wikipedia’s multilingual policy and metalinguistic practice ( 2011) Wikipedia defines itself as "the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopaedia on the internet," making an explicit language policy part of its mission statement. Astrid Ensslin argues that when you critically examine what Wikipedia actually does, its policies, its interface, its symbols, its community practices, this multilingual self-image conceals a deeply Anglo-centric structure.Fight #2 Oral citationsOral Citations project on WikipediaEthnographies of the Digitally Dispossessed (In The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology 2022) A book chapter describing the oral citations project and its ethnographic study by Heather Ford.Possible Enlightenments: Wikipedia’s Encyclopedic Promise and Epistemological Failure (MIT Press 2019) Wikipedia challenges traditional notions of expertise, authorship, access, and transparency. It also conserves features of the genre that characterize its emergence from western Enlightenment logic. Given Wikipedia's maturity, Matthew Vetter asks how do we understand this contradiction?When Knowledge Isn’t Written, Does It Still Count? (New York Times 2011)Fight #3 Inclusionists vs DeletionistsRepresentation and the problem of bibliographic imagination on Wikipedia (Luyt 2021). A history of the inclusionist versus deletionist debate, how it influenced the representation of the Phillippine-American War on Wikipedia, and exarcerbated representational gaps on the platform.The Missing Wikipedians (In Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader 2012) An early discussion of the cultures of deletionism in the context of African topics (using a case study of ...
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