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I wonder… am I an author of a wiki-text if I don’t edit it?

 

That is, does the mere potential to join in wiki authorship make me a participant?

 

The reasoning might be that my refusal to edit the text in some way puts my stamp of approval on its current form. Thus, I’m writing it by leaving it be.

 

 Is our collective authorship a sort of a hive ruled by a queen? A collage of independent voices? A dramatic presentation waiting to be directed onstage?

These questions are not intuitive to me because of my sense of personal agony and confidence in writing. But they are good ones to consider as we theorize wikis. I think they are governed by majority rule rather than radical democracy.