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Record W2616377678 · doi:10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v2.27529

Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

2017· article· en· W2616377678 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
David Mark Purdy

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Academic Librarianship · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWikis in Education and Collaboration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOpenness to experiencePoliticsPolitical scienceMedia studiesWorld Wide WebSociologyPsychologyLawComputer scienceSocial psychology

Abstract

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In Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, Nathaniel Tkacz identifies and interrogates the political underpinnings of openness as it has come to be expressed in the twenty-first century.This pioneering critique is primarily a response to proponents of openness who commonly either ignore its political dimensions or claim it to be apolitical.Tkacz's primary goal is not to denounce openness but rather to demonstrate that "openness is politically fraught" (175) and to develop a theoretically rigorous vocabulary with which to address its politics.To expose the intrinsically political nature of openness, he selects the various elements that are most often considered integral to open projects and points out the politics of each in corresponding realworld examples, most being drawn from the early history of Wikipedia.The book's short conclusion asserts a connection between openness and neoliberalism, an ideology that Tkacz opposes but considers important to take seriously.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScholarly communication, Open science
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.999
Threshold uncertainty score0.031

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.013
Scholarly communication0.0100.017
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0040.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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