hi felipe - congratulations! i see on your blog that the book is just in spanish for the time being. do you have any concrete plans to translate it? alternatively, you might consider writing a summary essay of the book in english. i'm sure many people are interested.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Felipe Ortega <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jfelipe@libresoft.es">jfelipe@libresoft.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi CPOViewers.<br>
<br>
I hope this message is not considered as blatant self-promo. I just think it<br>
could be of interest for some of you.<br>
<br>
I've just published a new book about Wikipedia, with Joaquín Rodríguez (vice-<br>
dean of EOI, and PhD. in Social Anthropology).<br>
<br>
The title is "El Potlatch Digital: Wikipedia y el Triunfo del Procomún y el<br>
Conocimiento Compartido", which translates (approx.) to: "The Digital<br>
Potlatch: Wikipedia and the Triumph of Commons and Shared Knowledge".<br>
<br>
The book is an interesting exercise of mixing a sociological and qualitative<br>
perspective (from Joaquín) with an empirical and quantitative approach (my<br>
own) to further investigate the motivations driving the work of Wikipedia<br>
editors. The book borrows the well-known case (in Social Sciences) of the<br>
Native American "Potlatch" to illustrate the importance of meritocracy and<br>
effort recognition in the editorial process.<br>
<br>
You can fin additional info in this post:<br>
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<a href="http://blog.felipeortega.net/?p=304&preview=true" target="_blank">http://blog.felipeortega.net/?p=304&preview=true</a><br>
<br>
Unfortunately, I know that many of you can't read Spanish. The book has been<br>
written in Spanish since we believed that it was necessary to balance the lack<br>
of books about Wikipedia in our native language. In any case, we'd be more<br>
than happy to find some help for an English version in the future :)<br>
<br>
Feel free to send me any questions or comments (or help offers ;) ) about it.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Felipe<br>
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