Engaging (Past) Participants: The Case of radicalprintshops.org

Wikis have for some time been heralded for their democratic and participatory potential and there has been significant research into the use of wikis in a variety of contexts. Within academic research they tend to be used by closed groups to manage material rather than for research per se. This chapter describes an experiment and the challenges to do the latter through the instigation of the open access wiki radicalprintshops.org.