03. What do Wikipedia edit wars say about the production of knowledge?

Cecilia Zhang is a Communication Design student at Parsons School of Design. She and I would often have these weekly thesis talks to talk about our own work. Recording our conversation for this episode felt a lot like our usual talk. In this episode, we talked about how Cecilia is looking into Wikipedia edit wars. Although they show this hostile side of Wikipedia, edit wars speak to the passion that editors have when they write. Her thesis is a critique on Wikipedia. I think we are often told that Wikipedia is an unreliable source because anyone can write it. But later I learned that there are a lot of factors that play into writing and publishing a Wikipedia page, and writing a good page is really not as easy as you think.