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Wikipedia as a topic:
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Books which have discussed the Wikipedia concept.

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[edit] 2008

Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton - more info

Investment Atlas by Kenneth G. Winans An investment history book that extensively referenced Wikipedia as a source for information. www.investmentatlas.com

[edit] 2006

[edit] December 2006

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams explores how some companies in the early 21st century used mass collaboration and open-source technology such as wikis to be successful.

Europe at War 1939-1945 No Simple Victory by Norman Davies mentions Wikipedia in Chapter 6 (Portrayals), page 460/461 with the words: [A]nd there is Wikipedia, the self-regulating Internet encyclopedia, to which anyone can contribute. Professional historians tend to distrust such websites. The Web they say, is dangerous. It is full of dubious statements and manifest errors. So, too, one might add, is every other source of historical information.

[edit] 2005

[edit] November 2005

Paulo Correa, M.Sc., Ph.D., Alexandra Correa, H.BA., Malgosia Askanas, Ph.D. (User:Helicoid) Wikipedia: A Techno-Cult of Ignorance, ISBN 1-894840-36-4

"ANTI-WIKIPEDIA

"Is Wikipedia a new fascism of knowledge perpetrated by disaffected leftists: a Wackopedia?

"The following is a manifesto against Wikipedia - against its pretensions to being encyclopedic; against its false claims of openness; against its representation of a democratic access to, and democratic enunciation of, knowledge; against its institutionalized falsification of facts; against its sordid attempts to monopolize knowledge and rewrite history by blanking out parts of our collective memory and replacing them with imprimaturs. Yes, those are all aspects of the cyberbureaucratic fraud that Wikipedia is committing wholesale upon knowledge. The fraud that consists of producing false knowledge on an encyclopedic scale. Now, that's notable about Wikipedia, if nothing else is."

[edit] October 2005

[edit] July 2005

  • 1st: Kay Johnson, Elaine Magusin, Exploring the Digital Library : A Guide for Online Teaching and Learning, Online Teaching and Learning Series, ISBN 0-787976-27-X. Talks about the processes that make Wikipedia work.

[edit] June 2005

  • 10th: Jeremy M. Norman, From Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook on the History of Information Technology, ISBN 0-930405-87-0. Page 10: "... such as blogs and huge cooperative encyclopedic publications like the Wikipedia (www.en.wikipedia.org) edited by people all over the world. But the ..."
  • 16th: Kimiz Dalkir, Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice, ISBN 0-750678-64-X. Refers to us for the article Wiki.
  • 27th: Mary Leete, Free Software For Dummies, ISBN 0-764595-79-2. References Wikipedia and eBay as "search engine"s, along with true examples.

[edit] April 2005

  • 11th: Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel, Innovation Happens Elsewhere : Open Source as Business Strategy, ISBN 1-558608-89-3. Excerpt from page 60 "... involve software source code. One of the most interesting is Wikipedia.'7 Wikipedia is an encyclopedia contributed entirely by volunteer efforts, using ..."
  • 15th: J. D. Lasica, Darknet : Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471683-34-5. Excerpt from page 83 "... the comic too, so I have to do that part." Wikipedia has been an amazing success story. The free-content encyclopedia-where anyone ..."
  • 25th: Danny Ayers, Andrew Watt, Beginning RSS and Atom Programming, ISBN 0-764579-16-9. Page 427 "... collaborative projects. Two notable projects that use Wikis are the Wikipedia (http: //en.wikipedia. org), a free encyclopedia with more than one ..."
  • 25th: Peter Weverka, The Everyday Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, ISBN 0-764588-75-3. Page 151 has an image of "Wikipedia, the encyclopedia and ongoing collaborative experiment." (it's Figure 5-2)
  • 28th: Glenn Yeffeth (ed), The Anthology at the End of the Universe : Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Smart Pop series, ISBN 1-932100-56-3. Page 27 "... Wikipedia: A Genuine H2G2-Minus the Editors 27 Since the dawn of ..."

[edit] March 2005

[edit] January 2005

  • 30th: Peter L. Bernstein, Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393052-33-8, uses image image:ElectoralCollege 1824-Large.png and references it
  • 28th: Terry Burnham, Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality, Wiley, ISBN 0-471602-45-0, p. 272 "... could not anticipate such an unlikely turn of events. Interestingly, wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, lists macroeconomics as a “see also” topic ..."
  • Nora Miller, Wikipedia and the disappearing "author" (an article from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, published by International Society for General Semantics) [1] The article begins "WHAT DOES it mean to author a piece of writing? For many generations, humans inscribed clay tablets and recorded information on papyrus but only rarely included their own names in the documents they produced. Many of the most famous works of antiquity come to us as accounts of words spoken by someone else."

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[edit] 2004

[edit] December 2004

[edit] November 2004

[edit] September 2004

  • 1st: Peter Lance, Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror, Regan Books, ISBN 0060543558, references RDX
  • John Gantz, Jack B. Rochester, Pirates of the Digital Millennium : How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy. ISBN 0131463152

[edit] August 2004

  • 16th: Jack Greenfield, et al, Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools, Wiley, ISBN 0471202843
  • 15th: Jerry Wind et al., The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business, Wharton School Publishing, ISBN 0131425021, references Wikipedia on page 8: "...consider a very different model presented by the Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com). There are no distinguished experts who sign their small entries..."
  • Dan Gillmor, We the Media. ISBN 0596007337
  • Jerry Wind, Colin Crook, Robert Gunther, The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business. ISBN 0131425021. Talks of Wikipedia, saying incorrectly essentially that there are no distinguish experts, yet it works.

[edit] June 2004

[edit] May 2004

[edit] April 2004

  • 1st: Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, Penguin Books, ISBN 1594200130, references U.S.-led coalition against Iraq#Invasion coalition
  • Thomas W. Malone, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life, Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 1591391253, quote: "... a basic Web site for the encyclopedia and called it Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). Wiki, the Hawaiian term for "quick," refers to the ..."
  • Thomas W. Malone, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life. ISBN 1591391253 Published by the Harvard Business School, nonetheless.

[edit] March 2004

  • Pamela McCorduck, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. ISBN 1568812051

[edit] 2003

[edit] June 2003

[edit] Unconfirmed