The Wikipedia revolution : how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia /
A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incredibly popular--open source encyclopedia.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hyperion,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.