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The Wikipedia Revolution

The Wikipedia Revolution

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

by Andrew Lih
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 06/04/2009

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"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." -Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer contributors, Wikipedia is the number-eight site on the World Wide Web. Created (and corrected) by anyone with access to a computer, this impressive assemblage of knowledge is growing at an astonishing rate of more than 30,000,000 words a month. Now, for the first time, a Wikipedia insider tells the story of how it all happened-from the first glimmer of an idea to the global phenomenon it's become. Andrew Lih has been an administrator (a trusted user who is granted access to technical features) at Wikipedia for more than four years, as well as a regular host of the weekly Wikipedia podcast. In The Wikipedia Revolution, he details the site's inception in 2001, its evolution, and its remarkable growth, while also explaining its larger cultural repercussions.
Wikipedia is not just a Web site; it's a global community of contributors who have banded together out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. The Wikipedia Revolution features a foreword by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and an afterword that is itself a Wikipedia creation.
ISBN:
9781400160761
9781400160761
Category:
Internet guides & online services
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
06-04-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
190x135x15mm
Weight:
0.07kg

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