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The Future of Editing: A Textual Analysis of Three Wikipedia Articles
This thesis is a case study analyzing the revisions made to three Wikipedia articles, \u27The Hitchhiker\u27s Guide to the Galaxy,\u27 \u272009 Northwestern Wildcats football team,\u27 and \u27Murder of Annie Le,\u27 in September, 2009. After tracking and coding the revisions made to each of these three articles using categories developed by Sam Dragga and Gwendolyn Gong and Lester Faigley and Stephen Witte, I describe the types of changes made to Wikipedia articles, the differences in changes made to articles at different levels on Wikipedia\u27s quality scale, and the features that make online editing distinct from print editing
Technology and the People of Fondwa: An Incremental Absorption
The author worked with the residents of a small rural village in Haiti. In addition to the environmental stress of the region, there was an absence of basic infrastructure to support the basic necessities of life. This article reports on the introduction of a solar cooker to the community in a culturally sensitive manner. The community absorbed that change and went further, into computer networking. The literature particularly in the area of technology transfer was used to guide the researcher during interaction with the local people
The Challenge of Supportable Open Source Software: Is it Really Open?
Information sharing has become an important phenomenon in Information Systems, as “Open Source” software continues to spread. College campuses in the United States and Developing Countries find this particularly attractive, since the cost of technology projects effectively has reduced. However, this implies a willingness to share one’s talents openly. Many software engineers are eager to do so, however, they thus lose their competitive edge. This paper examines the forces leading up to the Open Source era, and what one might expect in the future
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