P Konieczny
Biographic Data
| ID | 48554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Konieczny |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Konieczny |
| SIGNATURE | KONIECZNY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hanyang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9938-307X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing for the greater good: What do educators think about using Wikipedia as a teaching tool
This research presents the results of a questionnaire survey (N = 222) exploring teachers’ experiences with using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, mostly in higher education, across various global contexts. The sample comprised educators from diverse regions, with a focus on those actively integrating Wikipedia and additional Wikimedia projects such as Wikidata, into their curricula. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining quantitative anal…
Information literacy in South Korea: Similarities and differences between Korean and international students’ research trajectories
Work on students’ information literacy and research trajectories is usually based on studies of Western, English-speaking students. South Korea presents an opportunity to investigate an environment where Internet penetration is very high, but local Internet users operate in a different digital ecosystem than in the West, with services such as Google and Wikipedia being less popular. The current study is aimed at expanding a small body of research…
Fake news, an internet troll, and a conspiracy theory about ‘Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust’
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias
As one of the most popular sources of information in the world, Wikipedia is edited by a large, global community of contributors. User-generated nature of this online encyclopedia ensures that the information reflects a wide range of topics. Hovewer, Wikipedia articles are created and edited independently in each language version. Therefore, some topics may be presented with varying degrees of completeness depending on their importance in a parti…
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: A Case Study
The following exploratory study considers which macro-level factors can lead to the sharing economy being more popular in certain countries and less so in others. An example of commons-based peer production in the form of the level of contributing to Wikipedia in 24 European countries is used as a proxy for participation in the sharing economy. Demographic variables (number of native speakers, a proxy for population) and development ones (Human D…
Teaching liberal arts content via Wikipedia page authoring in an English language learning context
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical implications, particularly for English language learners. This case study describes an in-class editin…
From Xenophobia to Golden Age: Jewish Paradise” Proverb as a Linguistic Reclamation
Macro-level Differences in Participation in Sharing Economy: Factors Affecting Contributions to the Collective Intelligence Wikipedia Platform across Different Asian Countries
Different countries embrace the sharing economy with differing enthusiasm and effects due to factors ranging from the development level to government policies and society’s cultural values. This research measures the participation of Asian countries in this phenomena through their contributions to a global sharing economy platform—Wikipedia. This study uses language as a proxy for each country, which allows for a macro-scale comparison of factors…
Scp>Sopa,Pipa
SOPA and PIPA were pieces of American legislation proposed in the early 2010s to address issues related to copyright infringement that led to significant grassroot mobilization and protests among the Internet community. Those two bills were dropped following these protests but they have resurfaced since under other names, and related issues continue to be debated by politicians, scholars, activists, and the general public
Gender gap through time and space: A journey through Wikipedia biographies via the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator
In this study, we investigate how quantification of Wikipedia biographies can shed light on worldwide longitudinal gender inequality trends, a macro-level dimension of human development. We present the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator (WHGI), located within a set of indicators allowing comparative study of gender inequality through space and time, the Wikipedia Gender Indicators (WIGI), based on metadata available through the Wikidata database. Ou…
Wikipedia in the anti-Sopa protests as a case study of direct, deliberative democracy in cyberspace
This paper contributes to the discussion on deliberative, direct democracy and volunteer mobilization in the Internet era by analyzing the vote participation levels of Wikipedia volunteer editors (Wikipedians). On 18th January 2012 in the ‘first Internet strike’ against the American ‘Stop Online Piracy Act' legislation, over two thousand Wikipedians took part in the vote concerning whether their site should undertake a protest action, with vast m…
Joining the Global Village: Teaching Globalization with Wikipedia
This paper presents an analysis of my experiences with a teaching activity that engages students in publishing in Wikipedia on issues relating to globalization. It begins with a short overview of some of the current debates revolving around teaching globalization, which lay ground for the assignment. I discuss how this teaching tool fits with a number of dimensions related to teaching globalization, particularly with an international service lear…
Decision making in the self-evolved collegiate court: Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee and its implications for self-governance and judiciary in cyberspace
This article considers the extent to which non-legal factors (nationality, activity/experience, conflict avoidance, and time constraints) affect decision making within collegiate courts, through the study of the Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. That body is a self-evolved collegiate court of the Internet's fifth most popular website, whose judges (known as arbitrators) are volunteers. This study shows that the decision-making process of this bo…
Poland's Contentious Elites Enter the Age of Revolution: Extending Social Movement Concepts
Scholars of social movements commonly call for the field to be broadened in various ways because movements are often intertwined with other forms of conflict and because the causes or consequences of movements may operate differently in different contexts. Important change processes that were unfolding in Poland at the time of the French Revolution provide an instructive case. Although the contemporaneous French Revolution, with its enormous quan…
The day Wikipedia stood still: Wikipedia's editors' participation in the 2012 anti-Sopa protests as a case study of online organization empowering international and national political opportunity stru…
This article contributes to the discussions on Internet mobilization and on international social movements' ability to influence national policy. The event studied is the 'first Internet strike' of 18 January 2012 aimed against the SOPA legislation proposed in the USA. Wikipedia's volunteer editors from all around the world took part in the vote concerning whether Wikipedia should undertake a protest action aimed at influencing American policymak…
Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later
Just a few years ago Wikipedia was seen as a barbarian invading the ivory tower. Now, an increasing number of academics recognize that it can be used as an effective teaching tool. The following paper is divided into two parts. It beings with a discussion of the advantages of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, an activity that goes beyond a simple addition to the teaching repertoire, and allows contributing to our society through service learnin…
Adhocratic Governance in the Internet Age: A Case of Wikipedia
In recent years, a new realm has appeared for the study of political and sociological phenomena: the Internet. This article will analyze the decision-making processes of one of the largest online communities, Wikipedia. Founded in 2001, Wikipedia—now among the top-10 most popular sites on the Internet—has succeeded in attracting and organizing millions of volunteers and creating the world's largest encyclopedia. To date, however, little study has…
Governance, Organization, and Democracy on the Internet: The Iron Law and the Evolution of Wikipedia
This study examines whether the Iron Law of Oligarchy exists in Wikipedia by analyzing how a key policy of the website regarding verifiability evolved into its current form. The study describes the decision‐making processes of Wikipedia and shows that there are many factors preventing or slowing the development of oligarchy on Wikipedia. The study provides data advancing theoretical concepts related to the Iron Law of Oligarchy and the evolution …
Gender gap through time and space: A journey through Wikipedia biographies via the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator
In this study, we investigate how quantification of Wikipedia biographies can shed light on worldwide longitudinal gender inequality trends, a macro-level dimension of human development. We present the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator (WHGI), located within a set of indicators allowing comparative study of gender inequality through space and time, the Wikipedia Gender Indicators (WIGI), based on metadata available through the Wikidata database. Ou…
Governance, Organization, and Democracy on the Internet: The Iron Law and the Evolution of Wikipedia
This study examines whether the Iron Law of Oligarchy exists in Wikipedia by analyzing how a key policy of the website regarding verifiability evolved into its current form. The study describes the decision‐making processes of Wikipedia and shows that there are many factors preventing or slowing the development of oligarchy on Wikipedia. The study provides data advancing theoretical concepts related to the Iron Law of Oligarchy and the evolution …
Adhocratic Governance in the Internet Age: A Case of Wikipedia
In recent years, a new realm has appeared for the study of political and sociological phenomena: the Internet. This article will analyze the decision-making processes of one of the largest online communities, Wikipedia. Founded in 2001, Wikipedia—now among the top-10 most popular sites on the Internet—has succeeded in attracting and organizing millions of volunteers and creating the world's largest encyclopedia. To date, however, little study has…
Macro-level Differences in Participation in Sharing Economy: Factors Affecting Contributions to the Collective Intelligence Wikipedia Platform across Different Asian Countries
Different countries embrace the sharing economy with differing enthusiasm and effects due to factors ranging from the development level to government policies and society’s cultural values. This research measures the participation of Asian countries in this phenomena through their contributions to a global sharing economy platform—Wikipedia. This study uses language as a proxy for each country, which allows for a macro-scale comparison of factors…
Decision making in the self-evolved collegiate court: Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee and its implications for self-governance and judiciary in cyberspace
This article considers the extent to which non-legal factors (nationality, activity/experience, conflict avoidance, and time constraints) affect decision making within collegiate courts, through the study of the Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. That body is a self-evolved collegiate court of the Internet's fifth most popular website, whose judges (known as arbitrators) are volunteers. This study shows that the decision-making process of this bo…
Poland's Contentious Elites Enter the Age of Revolution: Extending Social Movement Concepts
Scholars of social movements commonly call for the field to be broadened in various ways because movements are often intertwined with other forms of conflict and because the causes or consequences of movements may operate differently in different contexts. Important change processes that were unfolding in Poland at the time of the French Revolution provide an instructive case. Although the contemporaneous French Revolution, with its enormous quan…
Governance, Organization, and Democracy on the Internet: The Iron Law and the Evolution of Wikipedia
This study examines whether the Iron Law of Oligarchy exists in Wikipedia by analyzing how a key policy of the website regarding verifiability evolved into its current form. The study describes the decision‐making processes of Wikipedia and shows that there are many factors preventing or slowing the development of oligarchy on Wikipedia. The study provides data advancing theoretical concepts related to the Iron Law of Oligarchy and the evolution …
Adhocratic Governance in the Internet Age: A Case of Wikipedia
In recent years, a new realm has appeared for the study of political and sociological phenomena: the Internet. This article will analyze the decision-making processes of one of the largest online communities, Wikipedia. Founded in 2001, Wikipedia—now among the top-10 most popular sites on the Internet—has succeeded in attracting and organizing millions of volunteers and creating the world's largest encyclopedia. To date, however, little study has…
Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later
Just a few years ago Wikipedia was seen as a barbarian invading the ivory tower. Now, an increasing number of academics recognize that it can be used as an effective teaching tool. The following paper is divided into two parts. It beings with a discussion of the advantages of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, an activity that goes beyond a simple addition to the teaching repertoire, and allows contributing to our society through service learnin…
The day Wikipedia stood still: Wikipedia's editors' participation in the 2012 anti-Sopa protests as a case study of online organization empowering international and national political opportunity stru…
This article contributes to the discussions on Internet mobilization and on international social movements' ability to influence national policy. The event studied is the 'first Internet strike' of 18 January 2012 aimed against the SOPA legislation proposed in the USA. Wikipedia's volunteer editors from all around the world took part in the vote concerning whether Wikipedia should undertake a protest action aimed at influencing American policymak…
Poland's Contentious Elites Enter the Age of Revolution: Extending Social Movement Concepts
Scholars of social movements commonly call for the field to be broadened in various ways because movements are often intertwined with other forms of conflict and because the causes or consequences of movements may operate differently in different contexts. Important change processes that were unfolding in Poland at the time of the French Revolution provide an instructive case. Although the contemporaneous French Revolution, with its enormous quan…
Wikipedia in the anti-Sopa protests as a case study of direct, deliberative democracy in cyberspace
This paper contributes to the discussion on deliberative, direct democracy and volunteer mobilization in the Internet era by analyzing the vote participation levels of Wikipedia volunteer editors (Wikipedians). On 18th January 2012 in the ‘first Internet strike’ against the American ‘Stop Online Piracy Act' legislation, over two thousand Wikipedians took part in the vote concerning whether their site should undertake a protest action, with vast m…
Joining the Global Village: Teaching Globalization with Wikipedia
This paper presents an analysis of my experiences with a teaching activity that engages students in publishing in Wikipedia on issues relating to globalization. It begins with a short overview of some of the current debates revolving around teaching globalization, which lay ground for the assignment. I discuss how this teaching tool fits with a number of dimensions related to teaching globalization, particularly with an international service lear…
Decision making in the self-evolved collegiate court: Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee and its implications for self-governance and judiciary in cyberspace
This article considers the extent to which non-legal factors (nationality, activity/experience, conflict avoidance, and time constraints) affect decision making within collegiate courts, through the study of the Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. That body is a self-evolved collegiate court of the Internet's fifth most popular website, whose judges (known as arbitrators) are volunteers. This study shows that the decision-making process of this bo…
Gender gap through time and space: A journey through Wikipedia biographies via the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator
In this study, we investigate how quantification of Wikipedia biographies can shed light on worldwide longitudinal gender inequality trends, a macro-level dimension of human development. We present the Wikidata Human Gender Indicator (WHGI), located within a set of indicators allowing comparative study of gender inequality through space and time, the Wikipedia Gender Indicators (WIGI), based on metadata available through the Wikidata database. Ou…
Scp>Sopa,Pipa
SOPA and PIPA were pieces of American legislation proposed in the early 2010s to address issues related to copyright infringement that led to significant grassroot mobilization and protests among the Internet community. Those two bills were dropped following these protests but they have resurfaced since under other names, and related issues continue to be debated by politicians, scholars, activists, and the general public
Macro-level Differences in Participation in Sharing Economy: Factors Affecting Contributions to the Collective Intelligence Wikipedia Platform across Different Asian Countries
Different countries embrace the sharing economy with differing enthusiasm and effects due to factors ranging from the development level to government policies and society’s cultural values. This research measures the participation of Asian countries in this phenomena through their contributions to a global sharing economy platform—Wikipedia. This study uses language as a proxy for each country, which allows for a macro-scale comparison of factors…
From Xenophobia to Golden Age: Jewish Paradise” Proverb as a Linguistic Reclamation
Teaching liberal arts content via Wikipedia page authoring in an English language learning context
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical implications, particularly for English language learners. This case study describes an in-class editin…
European Wikipedia platforms, sharing economy and national differences in participation: A Case Study
The following exploratory study considers which macro-level factors can lead to the sharing economy being more popular in certain countries and less so in others. An example of commons-based peer production in the form of the level of contributing to Wikipedia in 24 European countries is used as a proxy for participation in the sharing economy. Demographic variables (number of native speakers, a proxy for population) and development ones (Human D…
Quantifying Americanization: Coverage of American Topics in Different Wikipedias
As one of the most popular sources of information in the world, Wikipedia is edited by a large, global community of contributors. User-generated nature of this online encyclopedia ensures that the information reflects a wide range of topics. Hovewer, Wikipedia articles are created and edited independently in each language version. Therefore, some topics may be presented with varying degrees of completeness depending on their importance in a parti…
Writing for the greater good: What do educators think about using Wikipedia as a teaching tool
This research presents the results of a questionnaire survey (N = 222) exploring teachers’ experiences with using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, mostly in higher education, across various global contexts. The sample comprised educators from diverse regions, with a focus on those actively integrating Wikipedia and additional Wikimedia projects such as Wikidata, into their curricula. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining quantitative anal…
Information literacy in South Korea: Similarities and differences between Korean and international students’ research trajectories
Work on students’ information literacy and research trajectories is usually based on studies of Western, English-speaking students. South Korea presents an opportunity to investigate an environment where Internet penetration is very high, but local Internet users operate in a different digital ecosystem than in the West, with services such as Google and Wikipedia being less popular. The current study is aimed at expanding a small body of research…
Fake news, an internet troll, and a conspiracy theory about ‘Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust’
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Wikis in Education and Collaboration (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · The Internet (10 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · World Wide Web (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (6 works)