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Wikipedia Revolution
Andrew Lih
How A Bunch Of Nobodies Created The World's Greatest Encyclopedia
Hyperion
March 2009
On Sale: March 17, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 1401303714
EAN: 9781401303716
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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 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 #8 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 website; it's a
global community of contributors who have banded together
out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. Featuring a Foreword by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and an
Afterword that is itself a Wikipedia creation.
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