Wikipedia Revolution, The: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (repost)
Wikipedia Revolution, The: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
Hyperion | 2009-03-17 | ISBN: 1401303714 | pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
Hyperion | 2009-03-17 | ISBN: 1401303714 | pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
Since Wikipedia was launched online in 2001 as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit," it has blossomed to more than a billion words spread over 10 million articles in 250 languages, including 2.5 million articles in English, according to Wikipedia cofounder Wales in the foreword. Lih, a Beijing-based commentator on new media and technology for NPR and CNN, researched Wikipedia and collaborative journalism as a University of Hong Kong academic, and he has been a participating "Wikipedian" himself for the past five years.