The Wikipedia Revolution

book by Andrew Lih

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.

The Wikipedia Revolution: How A Bunch of Nobodies Created The World's Greatest Encyclopedia
AuthorAndrew Lih
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectInternet
GenreNonfiction
PublisherHyperion (US Version)
Aurum Press (UK Version)
Publication date
March 17, 2009
ISBN978-1-4013-0371-6
OCLC232977686
031 22
LC ClassZA4482 .L54 2009

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 change

  1. Biography Archived 2015-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, author's homepage.
  2. Andrew Lih. The Wikipedia Revolution. Hyperion, March 17, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6
  3. "Everybody Knows Everything", Jeremy Philips, The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2009

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