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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