维基百科革命The Wikipedia Revolution

2009-3  

Hyperion  

Andrew Lih  

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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.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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.

AcknowledgmentsForeword by Jimmy WalesChapter 1_THE WIKI PHENOMENON　HistoryChapter 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 NupediansChapter 3_WIKI ORIGINS　Ward's Start　HyperCard's Inspirations　A Web Browser　Viola　HyperCard RevisitedChapter 4_WIKI INTRODUCED　Slashdotting　Contributing the Meaning of Everything　The GFDL　UseMod Grows　Give Me More Space　Server LoadChapter 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 WarsChapter 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 GameChapter 7_TROLLS,VANDALS,AND SOCK PUPPETS,OH MY ……Chapter 8_CRISIS OF COMMUNITYChapter 9_WIKIPEDIA MAKES WAVESAfterwordNotesIndex

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