The Wikipedia revolution : how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia
Andrew Lih (Author)
A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incredibly popular--open source encyclopedia
xviii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781845134730, 9781845135164, 1845134737, 1845135164
280430641
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