Geeks Bearing Gifts

Geeks Bearing Gifts is a 2008 History of Computing book by Ted Nelson.

Mentions of Wikipedia

Nelson states in the introduction that he used Wikipedia for a lot of research for the book itself. In Chapter 20 he provides some criticism and praise for the site. He critiques that owing to the strong peer-review nature of Wikipedia that editing is really a misnomer where submission for consideration is a more accurate description of how volunteers contribute. He also takes some credit for Wikipedia's structure in that "it is built on a key part of the Xanadu data structure; each page is a series of quotations , or transclusions from separate editing operations." Nelson coined the term transclusion.[1]

References

  1. ^ Nelson, Ted (2008). Geeks bearing gifts : how the computer world got this way (Ed. 1.0. ed.). Sausalito, CA: Mindful Press. ISBN 978-0-578-00438-9.