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Trailblazing journey of collaborative online knowledge.
If you're fascinated by the power of collective intelligence and open-source platforms, "The Wikipedia Revolution" is a must-read. It dives into the origins and evolution of a site you likely use every day, offering an insider's perspective on how a group of volunteers built the world's most extensive encyclopedia. The stories behind the site's creation and growth will inspire you about the potential of collaboration and the Internet's democratizing power.
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ISBN: 9781401303716
Publisher: Hyperion
Date of Publication: 2009-03-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics:
Communication,
Personal Development,
Productivity,
Biography,
Technology,
Social Justice,
Leadership,
Business
Goodreads rating: 3.79
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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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Trailblazing journey of collaborative online knowledge.
If you're fascinated by the power of collective intelligence and open-source platforms, "The Wikipedia Revolution" is a must-read. It dives into the origins and evolution of a site you likely use every day, offering an insider's perspective on how a group of volunteers built the world's most extensive encyclopedia. The stories behind the site's creation and growth will inspire you about the potential of collaboration and the Internet's democratizing power.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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