The Wikipedia revolution : how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hyperion,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Jimmy Wales
- 1. The wiki phenomenon. History
- 2. 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
- 3. Wiki origins. Ward's start
- HyperCard's inspirations
- A web browser
- Viola
- HyperCard revisited
- 4. Wiki introduced. Slashdotting
- Contributing the meaning of everything
- The GFDL
- UseMod grows
- Give me more space
- Server load
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. Trolls, vandals, and sock puppets, oh my. Vandals and sock puppets
- Jimbo doesn't scale
- 8. Crisis of community. Criticisms
- The Seigenthaler incident
- The Essjay controversy
- 9. 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.