The Wikipedia revolution : how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia / Andrew Lih
- Bib ID:
- 4601599
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lih, Andrew
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Hyperion, c2009
- xviii, 246 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781401303716
- 1401303714
- Summary:
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A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incredibly popular--open source encyclopedia.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-235) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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