A Wikipedia expert tells the inside story of the trailblazing--and incredibly popular--open source encyclopedia.
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ISBN:9781401303716 (alk. paper)
ISBN:1401303714 (alk. paper)
Physical Description:xviii, 246 pages ; 25 cm print
Publisher:New York :Hyperion,2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-235) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The wiki phenomenon -- 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.
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