Wikipedia Revolution How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia

Name: Wikipedia Revolution How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
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ISBN: 9781401303716

ISBN-10: 1401303714

ISBN-13: 9781401303716

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Authors: Andrew Lih, Jimmy Wales

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Description:

A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incrediblypopular--open source encyclopedia.

Book details

List price: $24.99
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.87" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword




The Wiki Phenomenon


History



A Nupedia


What Is an Encyclopedia?


Alabama Rising


The Mother of All Directories


RMS


Linux on the Scene


Remember DMOZ


The Nupedia Idea


Nupedia's Rules


The Nupedians



Wiki Origins


Ward's Start


HyperCard's Inspirations


A Web Browser


Viola


HyperCard Revisited



Wiki Introduced


Slashdotting


Contributing the Meaning of Everything


The GFDL


UseMod Grows


Give Me More Space


Server Load



Community at Work (The Piranha Effect)


Usenet's Legacy


Lessons from Usenet


Growth


How Wikipedia Works


Urban Jungle


Signaling One Another


Then Came the Bots


Lots of Red Dots


Peer Production


Dot Map Obsession


Essays, Guidelines, and Policy


Fix It Yourself


What to Include


Gaming the Vote


Small Ball


Gdansk/Danzig Wars



Wikipedia Goes International


To Split or Not to Split


Spanish Wikipedia Fork


Making It Multilingual


Encoding Language


A Colossal Waste of Space


Japanese Wikipedia


German Wikipedia


Chinese Wikipedia


Serbian Wikipedia and Kazakh Wikipedia


African Languages


The Numbers Game



Trolls, Vandals, and Sock Puppets, Oh My


Vandals and Sock Puppets


Jimbo Doesn't Scale



Crisis of Community


Criticisms


The Seigenthaler Incident


The Essjay Controversy



Wikipedia Makes Waves


JewWatch


Microsoft Encarta's Experiment


Wikitorials


Nature Study


Britannica Goes Free and Collaborative


Digital Universe and Citizendium


The Future


To the Afterword


Afterword


Notes


Index