{"id":12465,"date":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/wikipeida-was-here\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T16:40:05","slug":"wikipeida-was-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wikipeida-was-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Was Here"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,504,472],"project_type":[725,734],"class_list":["post-12465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2017","project-blowing-the-whistle-questioning-evidence","project_type-formats","project_type-shortlist"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>Wikipedia Was Here<\/em> \u2013\u00a0Countervailing Anonymous Knowledge Production on Wikipedia\r\n\r\nOn the surface, Wikipedia entries seem neutral-- and their largely anonymous contributors in effect write the dominant narratives, on subjects from Chelsea Manning to Tempelhof Airport. But in the name of crowdsourcing and \u00bbtruth,\u00ab Wikipedia obfuscates context, authorship, and power-- even as it marginalizes the views of women, LGBT, and communities of color.\r\n\r\nMy project, <em>Wikipedia Was Here<\/em>, builds upon the site\u2019s decentralized, networked landscape of knowledge production, to reveal: Whose truth? Who writes the public narrative?\r\n\r\n<em>Wikipedia Was Here<\/em> is a website that visually discloses the location of anonymous edits in real-time. The site geocodes the IP addresses of new Wikipedia edits, and shows corresponding visual imagery from Google Maps and Street View. At the same time, it also presents the name of the entry in question and the changes being made.\r\n\r\nThe project also includes an archive, which viewers can search by Wikipedia entry or location-- allowing us to critically examine edits that would typically go unnoticed, or easily normalized.\r\n\r\nWhen are anonymous editors leaking crucial facts? Drawing upon local knowledge? Reporting \u00bbfacts\u00ab without evidence? In a \u00bbpost-truth\u00ab era, <em>Wikipedia Was Here<\/em> visualizes the cultural and infrastructural architectural contexts, and even hints of the political climates, in which entries are edited and rewritten. It aims to act as a countervailing force and make the production of popular knowledge\u2014and its underlying power relations\u2014more visible."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=12465"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=12465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}