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Lih, Andrew.
The Wikipedia revolution :
how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia /
Andrew Lih.
1st ed.
New York :
Hyperion,
c2009.
xviii, 246 p. :
ill., map ;
25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-235) and index.
A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incredibly popular--open source encyclopedia.
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.
Wikipedia.
Electronic encyclopedias.
User-generated content.