  (English title) Wikipedia entries on fiction: Under what terms is it possible
to report about non-propositional knowledge gained from reading?
  Given that Wikipedia entries are likely to extert a strong influence on how
literary texts are perceived - due to their preferential ranking in Google -
there is some demand that research dealing with the transfer of knowledge on
literature to the public be more concerned with looking into both the content
that is available for free on the Web and any aspect that may come with writing
about literature for free. This contribution argues from within Wikipedia's
multidisciplinary consensus-driven space in which propositional knowledge is
given priority that it would be essential for entries on fiction to present
non-propositional knowledge as being one of its hallmarks. For this aim, a
special concept is developed that is designed to function as the study's formal
object: "Erlesnis" (which in German is a pun that combines "Erlebnis" -
adventure experience - and "lesen" - reading). It is defined as
non-propositional knowledge that has been acquired in an individual reading
process. Writing about one's own Erlesnis in new ways is being tried out in
four essays, and on de.wikipedia.org an experiment is conducted to find out
what community members think about the idea of including, in entries on
fiction, sections specifically designed to report about what people felt like
when reading a certain text. Finally, a draft typology of Erlesnis-writing is
suggested. This contribution is the first of its kind internationally to deal
with Wikipedia from the point of view of transfer of knowledge on literature to
the public. For the theory of this field of research some new aspects are
offered for debate.
