Does Wikipedia have a future? FUTURE events in an encyclopedia dedicated to ESTABLISHED knowledge
Channel: understanding wikis and wikipedia
Date: 14/06/2023

This is my contribution to the 2023 wikihistories symposion organized by Michael Falk and Heather Ford.

The contribution addresses the question of what future events can be presented in Wikipedia. The dilemma arises from Wikipedia's goal of representing established knowledge, while future events are inherently not established as they have not yet occurred. The article refers to Wikipedia's rules and the wiki model introduced in "Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen" in 2021. It introduces three categories in which future events can be classified.