Bibliography of Wikipedia
This is a list of books about Wikipedia or for which Wikipedia is a major subject.
Wikipedia as primary subject
- Ayers, Phoebe; Matthews, Charles; Yates, Ben (2008). How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It. No Starch Press. ISBN 9781593271763.[1]
- Broughton, John (2008). Wikipedia – The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9780596521745.[2]
- Dalby, Andrew (2009). The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality. Siduri Books. ISBN 9780956205209.[3]
- Gourdain, Pierre; O'Kelly, Florence; Roman-Amat, Béatrice; Soulas, Delphine; Droste zu Hülshoff, Tassilo von (2007). La Révolution Wikipédia (The Wikipedia Revolution). Paris: Les Mille et Une Nuits. ISBN 978-2-7555-0051-6.
- Gregianin, Leonardo; Pinheiro, Eduardo (2010). Wikipédia: a Enciclopédia Livre e Gratuita da Internet (in Portuguese). Novatec. ISBN 978-85-7522-216-4.
- Jemielniak, Dariusz (2014). Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804789448.
- Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion. ISBN 9781401303716.[4][5]
- Lovink, Geert; Tkacz, Nathaniel, eds. (2011). Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. ISBN 978-90-78146-13-1.
- O'Sullivan, Dan (2009). Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754674337. OCLC 320696473.
- Reagle, Joseph M. Jr. (2010). Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262014472.[6][7]
- Tkacz, Nathaniel (2014). Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-19244-4.
Wikipedia as major non-primary subject
- Benkler, Yochai (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12577-1.
- Keen, Andrew (2007). The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. Crown Business. ISBN 9780385520805.[8]
Wikipedia as source material
Wikipedia is free content which anybody can edit, use, modify, and distribute. Several books have used Wikipedia as source material as their data source while others have compiled articles for artistic, educational, or commercial purposes.
- Bridle, James, ed. (2010). The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs.[9][10][11][12]
- Fruhlinger, Josh; Lastowka, Conor (2011). [Citation Needed]: The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781466346987.[13][14]
- Skiena, Steven; Ward, Charles. Who's Bigger?: Where Historical Figures Really Rank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107041370.[15][16]
References
- ^ Book review in the Sacramento Book Review, Vol. 1 Iss. 2, October, 2008, p.19.
- ^ "The Charms of Wikipedia", a review by Nicholson Baker, The New York Review of Books, Volume 55, No. 4, March 20, 2008.
- ^ David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009)
- ^ "Everybody Knows Everything", Jeremy Philips, The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2009
- ^ "Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City", Noam Cohen, New York Times, March 28, 2009
- ^ Bulatovic, Peja (January 14, 2011). "Wikipedia turns 10". CBC News.
- ^ Solon, Olivia (January 11, 2011). "A Decade Of Wikipedia, The Poster Child For Collaboration". Wired.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (2007-06-29). "The Cult of the Amateur". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
- ^ Jones, Nate (7 September 2010). "Wikipedia Entry on Iraq War Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia". time.com. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ Geere, Duncan (8 September 2010). "Which Wikipedia page has 12 volumes worth of edits?". wired.co.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ Bilton, Nick (9 September 2010). "The Story Behind a Wikipedia Entry - NYTimes.com". bits.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ Madrigal, Alexis (17 September 2010). "A Book Made from Wikipedia Edits to the 'The Iraq War' Entry". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
- ^ "Hit Tumblr Mocks Wikipedia's Most Ridiculous Claims". Mashable. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
- ^ conorlstowka (June 3, 2013). "11 Most Inspiring Things Ever Published on Wikipedia". BuzzFeed.
- ^ Kevin Hartnett (November 29, 2013). "The most important people who ever lived". Boston Globe. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
- ^ Cass Sunstein (December 3, 2013). "Statistically, Who's the Greatest Person in History? Why quants can't measure historic significance". The New Republic. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
