GOOD FAITH  
COLLABORATION  
e Culture of Wikipedia  
Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. | foreword by Lawrence Lessig  
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Good Faith Collaboration  
History and Foundations of Information Science  
Edited by Michael Buckland and Jonathan Furner  
Human Information Retrieval by Julian Warner  
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia by Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.  
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia  
Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.  
Foreword by Lawrence Lessig  
The MIT Press  
Cambridge, Massachusetts  
London, England  
© 2010 Joseph Michael Reagle Jr.  
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
Reagle, Joseph Michael.  
Good faith collaboration : the culture of Wikipedia / Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. ;  
foreword by Lawrence Lessig.  
p. cm. — (History and foundations of information science)  
Includes bibliographical references and index.  
ISBN 978-0-262-01447-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Wikipedia. 2. Electronic  
encyclopedias—Case studies. 3. Wikis (Computer science)—Case studies. 4.  
Communication in learning and scholarship—Technological innovations—Case  
studies. 5. Authorship—Collaboration—Case studies. 6. Online social net-  
works—Case studies. I. Title.  
AE100.R43 2010  
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2009052779  
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