The Wikipedia Revolution How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia

by Lih, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781401303716
• ISBN10: 1401303714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Hachette Books

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
The Wiki Phenomenon	p. 1
History	p. 3
A Nupedia	p. 13
What Is an Encyclopedia?	p. 14
Alabama Rising	p. 17
The Mother of All Directories	p. 23
RMS	p. 24
Linux on the Scene	p. 28
Remember DMOZ	p. 30
The Nupedia Idea	p. 32
Nupedia's Rules	p. 36
The Nupedians	p. 37
Wiki Origins	p. 43
Ward's Start	p. 45
HyperCard's Inspirations	p. 51
A Web Browser	p. 53
Viola	p. 54
HyperCard Revisited	p. 55
Wiki Introduced	p. 61
Slashdotting	p. 67
Contributing the Meaning of Everything	p. 70
The GFDL	p. 72
UseMod Grows	p. 73
Give Me More Space	p. 75
Server Load	p. 77
Community at Work (The Piranha Effect)	p. 81
Usenet's Legacy	p. 83
Lessons from Usenet	p. 87
Growth	p. 88
How Wikipedia Works	p. 90
Urban Jungle	p. 96
Signaling One Another	p. 97
Then Came the Bots	p. 99
Lots of Red Dots	p. 106
Peer Production	p. 108
Dot Map Obsession	p. 109
Essays, Guidelines, and Policy	p. 112
Fix It Yourself	p. 114
What to Include	p. 115
Gaming the Vote	p. 121
Small Ball	p. 122
Gdansk/Danzig Wars	p. 122
Wikipedia Goes International	p. 133
To Split or Not to Split	p. 135
Spanish Wikipedia Fork	p. 136
Making It Multilingual	p. 139
Encoding Language	p. 142
A Colossal Waste of Space	p. 143
Japanese Wikipedia	p. 145
German Wikipedia	p. 147
Chinese Wikipedia	p. 150
Serbian Wikipedia and Kazakh Wikipedia	p. 155
African Languages	p. 157
The Numbers Game	p. 159
Trolls, Vandals, and Sock Puppets, Oh My	p. 169
Vandals and Sock Puppets	p. 176
Jimbo Doesn't Scale	p. 179
Crisis of Community	p. 183
Criticisms	p. 188
The Seigenthaler Incident	p. 191
The Essjay Controversy	p. 194
Wikipedia Makes Waves	p. 201
JewWatch	p. 202
Microsoft Encarta's Experiment	p. 204
Wikitorials	p. 205
Nature Study	p. 208
Britannica Goes Free and Collaborative	p. 209
Digital Universe and Citizendium	p. 210
The Future	p. 213
To the Afterword	p. 217
Afterword	p. 219
Notes	p. 231
Index	p. 237
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