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

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Aurum, 2009 - Computers - 252 pages
- Foreword by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia - In a unique publishing experiment the final chapter - on the future of Wikipedia - will itself be written as a wiki. To visit click www.wikipediastory.com - The only accessible narrative history of one of the world's great websites - in the same vein as The Google Story (9780330440059) and Wikinomics (9781845133832) - Written with the full support of Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation

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About the author (2009)

Andrew Lih is a Wikipedia insider, having been an administrator (a trusted user who is granted access to technical features) for over seven years, as well as a regular host of the weekly Wikipedia podcast. He is also an academic who writes and commentates on new media, journalism and technology and has taught at Columbia University and the University of Hong Kong.

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TitleThe Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
AuthorAndrew Lih
ContributorJimmy Wales
Editionillustrated
PublisherAurum, 2009
ISBN1845134737, 9781845134730
Length252 pages
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Computers / Internet / General
Computers / Internet / User-Generated Content
Computers / Online Services
Reference / Encyclopedias
  
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