The Wikipedia Revolution
The Wikipedia Revolution: How A Bunch of Nobodies Created The World's Greatest Encyclopedia is a 2008 book by Andrew Lih.[1][2][3] It is a book about the history of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. It covers the period from the start of Wikipedia in early 2000 to early 2008. It has biographies of Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, and Ward Cunningham. Wales and Sanger started Wikipedia, while Cunningham started the first online wiki. It also talks about events in Wikipedia's history such as the Essjay controversy.
| Author | Andrew Lih |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Internet |
| Publisher | Hyperion (US Version) Aurum Press (UK Version) |
| ISBN | 978-1-4013-0371-6 |
| OCLC | 232977686 |
The book has a foreword (a short piece of writing found at the beginning of a book) by Wales, and an afterword (a short piece of writing found at the end of a book) by volunteers of an online wiki who talk about the problems and opportunities in Wikipedia's future.
References
- ↑ Biography Archived 2015-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, author's homepage.
- ↑ Andrew Lih. The Wikipedia Revolution. Hyperion, March 17, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6
- ↑ "Everybody Knows Everything", Jeremy Philips, The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2009
Other websites
- The Wikipedia Revolution, official website
- "Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City", Noam Cohen, New York Times, March 28, 2009
- "Wikipedia's Old-Fashioned Revolution", L. Gordon Crovitz, The Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2009
- "Like Boiling a Frog" Archived 2009-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, review by David Runciman in The London Review of Books, May 28, 2009
