While journalists performed a long‐rehearsed move to announce the death of Elizabeth II on the BBC, several volunteer editors rushed to break the news in the late queen's Wikipedia article. Aside from updating verb tenses from is to was, such edits entailed a revisionist approach, with Wikipedians seeking to shape how the British royals would be portrayed online. Tracing the negotiations and edit wars on the English‐language Wikipedia surrounding this event, this article asks: to what extent does collaborative textual production subvert individual authorship in favour of knowledge co‐production and collective authorship? Drawing on an online ethnography on Wikipedia's metapages, I propose technoliberal participation as a framework to flesh out how internet users frequently perceive whatever is available online as a property of the collective. Online projects such as this self‐styled ‘free encyclopedia’ maximize their participants’ freedom to express themselves while setting them free from a sense of long‐lasting commitment to the project. Considering the place of technoliberal participation in several online settings, I argue that the perception of digital technologies as neoliberal tools to address neoliberal problems sets out freedom as a watchword around which content authorship is not erased, but reframed, via a responsibility‐free, do‐it‐yourself media ideology.

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维基百科上伊丽莎白二世之死：通过在线技术自由主义参与充实自由

当记者们在英国广播公司(BBC)上进行了排练已久的宣布伊丽莎白二世去世的消息时，几位志愿编辑急忙在已故女王的维基百科文章中宣布了这一消息。除了更新动词时态之外是到曾是，此类编辑需要修正主义方法，维基百科试图塑造英国王室在网上的形象。本文追溯了英语维基百科上围绕这一事件的谈判和编辑战争，提出了这样的问题：协作文本生产在多大程度上颠覆了个人作者身份，转而支持知识合作生产和集体作者身份？借鉴维基百科元页面上的在线民族志，我提出将技术自由主义参与作为一个框架，以充实互联网用户如何经常将网上提供的任何内容视为集体财产。像这个自称为“自由百科全书”这样的在线项目最大限度地提高了参与者表达自己的自由，同时让他们摆脱了对项目的长期承诺。考虑到技术自由主义参与在一些在线环境中的地位，我认为，数字技术作为解决新自由主义问题的新自由主义工具的看法将自由作为一个口号，围绕这个口号，内容作者的身份不会被删除，而是通过无责任的方式重新构建， ‐it‐self 媒体意识形态。