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Loup Cellard et al., « Mapping transparency issues in design and technology. Wikipedia Case Study. », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.45803e...
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In this paper we present the preliminary steps of a project, which aims to understand the usesof transparency - both formal and metaphorical - and the meanings this concept acquiresacross multiple contexts: arts and design, digital culture and politics. Specifically, it aims atunderstanding the mechanisms through which a politics of transparency is enacted indifferent situations. We choose Wikipedia interface and Mediawiki software, as a first site ofinquiry. Using digital methods, we try to evaluate the degree of "transparency" and "opacity"of the wikipedia platform. It appears that even if wikipedia interface seems transparent andwith a low level of entree for content edition, the whole wikipedia governance seems difficultto appreciate from the interface. The analysis of the PHP source code of Mediawiki, gives ussome metrics of the code complexity but this analysis is limited: most of the code generatedis disseminated in hundreds of tools difficult to addressed. We want to show that thetransparency of wikipedia is difficult to evaluate because of the interface effects revealing orhiding the negotiations about transparency between users and between the interface and thecode.
