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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232977686 Title: The Wikipedia revolution : how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia Author: Andrew Lih Publisher: New York : Hyperion, ©2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9781401303716 1401303714 OCLC:232977686

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The Wikipedia revolution : how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia

Author:	Andrew Lih
Publisher:	New York : Hyperion, ©2009.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incredibly popular--open source encyclopedia.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Lih, Andrew. Wikipedia revolution. New York : Hyperion, c2009 (OCoLC)747117378
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Andrew Lih Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781401303716 1401303714
OCLC Number:	232977686
Description:	xviii, 246 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility:	Andrew Lih.

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

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