维基百科革命The Wikipedia Revolution

内容概要

ANDREW LIH was an academic in new media and journalism for ten years, at Columbia University and Hong Kong University. He has been a commentator on new media, technology, and journalism issues on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Lih is based in Beijing.

书籍目录

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Jimmy Wales

Chapter 1_THE WIKI PHENOMENON

History

Chapter 2_A NUPEDIA

What Is an Encyclopedia?

Alabama Rising

The Mother of All Directories

RMS

Linux on the Scene

Remember DMOZ

The Nupedia Idea

Nupedia's Rules

The Nupedians

Chapter 3_WIKI ORIGINS

Ward's Start

HyperCard's Inspirations

A Web Browser

Viola

HyperCard Revisited

Chapter 4_WIKI INTRODUCED

Slashdotting

Contributing the Meaning of Everything

The GFDL

UseMod Grows

Give Me More Space

Server Load

Chapter 5_COMMUNITY AT WORK (THE PIRANHA EFFECT)

Usenet's Legacy

Lessons from Usenet

Growth

How Wikipedia Works

Urban Jungle

Signaling One Another

Then Came the Bots

Lots of Red Dots

Peer Production

Dot Map Obsession

Essays, Guidelines, and Policy

Fix It Yourself

What to Include

Gaming the Vote

Small Ball

Gdansk/Danzig Wars

Chapter 6_WIKIPEDIA GOES INTERNATIONAL

To Split or Not to Split

Spanish Wikipedia Fork

Making It Multilingual

Encoding Language

A Colossal Waste of Space

Japanese Wikipedia

German Wikipedia

Chinese Wikipedia

Serbian Wikipedia and Kazakh Wikipedia

African Languages

The Numbers Game

Chapter 7_TROLLS,VANDALS,AND SOCK PUPPETS,OH MY

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Chapter 8_CRISIS OF COMMUNITY

Chapter 9_WIKIPEDIA MAKES WAVES

Afterword

Notes

Index

作者简介

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. He notes the site has "invigorated and disrupted the world of encyclopedias... yet only a fraction of the public who use Wikipedia realize it is entirely created by legions of unpaid and often unidentified volunteers." Other books have surfaced (How Wikipedia Works; Wikinomics), but Lih's authoritative approach covers much more, from the influence of Ayn Rand on Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales and the "burnout and stress" of highly active volunteer editor-writers to controversies, credibility crises and vandalism. Wales's more traditional earlier encyclopedia, the peer-reviewed Nupedia, began to fade after he saw how Ward Cunningham's software invention, Wiki (Hawaiian for "quick"), could generate collaborative editing. Tracing Wikipedia's evolution and expansion to international editions, Lih views the encyclopedia as a "global community of passionate scribes," attributing its success to a policy of openness which is "not so much technical phenomenon as social phenomenon." (Mar.)

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