Platform Autopsies
Who Guards the Library? Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Epistemological Violence of "Open" Knowledge
Case study examining how Wikipedia and Wikidata's notability standards systematically exclude independent researchers, non-Western knowledge, and emerging scholarship while claiming to democratize knowledge. Documents the December 2025 Wikidata deletion incident and the digital sovereignty infrastructure alternative.
Anvil's Edge
December 2025
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Author: Josie Jefferson
Additional case studies coming soon
Future analyses will include:
- • GeoCities: The Great Homestead Extinction (2009)
- • Google Reader: Strategic Platform Murder (2013)
- • Vine: When Corporate Parents Kill (2017)
- • MySpace Data Loss: The 50 Million Song Massacre (2019)
- • Tumblr: Death by Policy Change (2018-present)
Format Forensics
Format studies coming soon
Future analyses will include:
- • MP3 Survival: Why Open Standards Persist
- • Flash's Fossilization: The Death of Proprietary Media
- • HTML's Resilience: The Power of Simplicity
- • RealMedia's Extinction: DRM as Murder Weapon
Contemporary Platform Analysis
Living platform analyses coming soon
Future analyses will include:
- • Mastodon & ActivityPub: Federation as Sovereignty Strategy
- • Bluesky & AT Protocol: Portable Identity Architecture
- • Solid Project: Data-Application Separation
- • Nostr: Minimalist Protocol Design