Bibliography of Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has served as a major subject of various works of academic literature.

Wikipedia as primary subject

2025

• Lapointe, Jean-Michel & Martel, Marie D., eds. (2025). Le mouvement Wikimédia au Canada: Communautés, institutions et culture libre. Presses de l'Université de Montréal. ISBN   978-2-7606-5109-8
• Wales, Jimmy; Gardner, Dan (2025). The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN   9780593727461.

2024

• Apostolopoulos, Petros (2024). Producing and Debating History: Historical Knowledge on Wikipedia. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. doi:10.1515/9783111069586. ISBN   9783111069586.
• Harrison, Stephen (2024). The Editors. Inkshares. ISBN 978-1-95030-167-6.
• Thomas, Paul A. (2024). The Information Behavior of Wikipedia Fan Editors: A Digital (auto) ethnography. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Poudat, Céline; Lüngen, Harald; Herzberg, Laura, eds. (2024). Investigating Wikipedia. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/scl.121. ISBN   978 90 272 4646 2.
• Rahmstorf, Olaf (2023-12-14). Wikipedia: Die rationale Seite der Digitalisierung?: Entwurf einer Theorie. Digitale Gesellschaft (in German). Vol. 40 (1 ed.). Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag. doi:10.14361/9783839458624. ISBN   978-3-8376-5862-0.

2022

• Bruckman, Amy S. (2022). Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-49032-0. OCLC   1260167033.
• Ford, Heather (2022). Writing the revolution : Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-04629-9. OCLC   1295611957.
• Jönsson, Johan (2022). Wikipedia inifrån (in Swedish). Stockholm: Verbal förlag. ISBN   978-9-1891-5586-2. OCLC   1310351794.
• Kopf, Susanne (2022). A discursive perspective on Wikipedia : more than an encyclopaedia?. Cham: Springer International Publishing. ISBN   978-3-031-11024-5. OCLC   1347021502.
• Thomas, Paul A. (2022). Inside Wikipedia : how it works and how you can be an editor. Lanham: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-1-5381-6321-4. OCLC   1301904061.

2021

• Maher Asaad Baker (2021), How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles
• Barbe, Lionel; Severo, Marta, eds. (2021). Wikipédia, objet de médiation et de transmission des savoirs (in French). Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre. ISBN   978-2-84016-388-6. OCLC   1272883718.
• Bridges, Laurie M.; Pun, Raymond; Arteaga, Roberto A., eds. (2021). Wikipedia and Academic Libraries: A Global Project. Maize Books. ISBN   978-1-60785-672-6. OCLC   1268502981.
• McDowell, Zachary J.; Vetter, Matthew A. (2021). Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-000-47427-5. OCLC   1266643508.

2020

• Lorente, Patricio (2020). El conocimiento hereje: una historia de Wikipedia. Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós. ISBN   9789501298949.
• Reagle, Joseph; Koerner, Jackie, eds. (2020). Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. MIT Press. ISBN   9780262538176.
• Richter, Pavel (2020). Die Wikipedia-Story: Biografie eines Weltwunders (in German). München: Abod. ISBN   978-3-5935-1406-2. OCLC   1280965928.

2018

• Proffitt, Merrilee, ed. (2018). Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge. American Library Association. ISBN   978-0838916322. ^[1]
• Ju Wan Jin, Chul Jeong, Chul Ryu, ed. (2018). Wikipedia, The Free encyclopedia. Sagyejeol. ISBN   979-11-6094-404-4. ^[2]

2017

• Lund, Arwid (2017). Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism: A Realm of Freedom?. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN   978-3-319-50690-6.

2016

• Diraneyya, Abbad (2016). Hikayat Wikibedia (Story of Wikipedia) (in Arabic). Online: Arabic Librebooks.
• Merz, Manuel (2016). Die Wikipedia-Community: Typologie der Autorinnen und Autoren der freien Online-Enzyklopädie (in German). Wiesbaden. ISBN   978-3-658-28113-7.

2015

• Barbe, Lionel; Merzeau, Louise; Schafer, Valérie, eds. (2015). Wikipédia, objet scientifique non identifié. Intelligences numériques (in French). Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest. ISBN   978-2-84016-205-6. OCLC   905084328.
• Ford, Heather (2015). Fact Factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent.
• Walter Isaacson (2015) The Innovators 9781476708706

2014

• Fichman, Pnina; Hara, Noriko, eds. (2014). Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN   978-0-8108-9101-2. OCLC   861955584.
• Jemielniak, Dariusz (2014). Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN   9780804789448.
• Leitch, Thomas M. (2014). Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   9781421415352. LCCN   2014004984. OCLC   889953398.
• Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates (2014) How Wikipedia Works and How You Can Be a Part of It. 9781593271763
• Tkacz, Nathaniel (2014). Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness. University of Chicago Press. ISBN   978-0-226-19244-4.

2011

• Anderson, Jennifer Joline (2011). Kesselring, Mari (ed.). Wikipedia: The Company and Its Founders. Technology Pioneers. ABDO Publishing. ISBN   9781617148125. LCCN   2010037886. OCLC   767732162.
• Lovink, Geert; Tkacz, Nathaniel, eds. (2011). Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. ISBN   978-90-78146-13-1.

2010

• Brož, Petr; Groh, Jan; Hofman, Jiří; Hrdlička, Pavel; Kadlecová, Petra; Langer, Miroslav; Lochman, Jan; Loužek, Jan; Špale, Jiří (2010). Wikipedie; průvodce na cestě za informacemi (in Czech). Kralice na Hané: Computer Media. ISBN   978-80-7402-062-9. ^[3]
• Gregianin, Leonardo; Pinheiro, Eduardo (2010). Wikipédia: a Enciclopédia Livre e Gratuita da Internet (in Portuguese). Novatec. ISBN   978-85-7522-216-4.
• Reagle Jr., Joseph M. (2010). Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-01447-2. LCCN   2009052779. ^{[4] [5]}

2009

• Dalby, Andrew (2009). The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality. Siduri Books. ISBN   9780956205209. ^[6]
• Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion. ISBN   9781401303716. ^{[7] [8]}
• O'Sullivan, Dan (2009). Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. ISBN   9780754674337. OCLC   320696473.

2008

• Ayers, Phoebe; Matthews, Charles; Yates, Ben (2008). How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It. No Starch Press. ISBN   9781593271763. ^[9]
• Broughton, John (2008). Wikipedia – The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. ISBN   9780596521745. ^[10]

2007

• 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.

Wikipedia as major non-primary subject

2022

• Graham, Mark; Dittus, Martin (2022). Geographies of Digital Exclusion Data and Inequality (PDF). Radical Geography. London: Pluto Press. ISBN   978-1-78680-742-7.
• Garfield, Simon (2022). All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   978-1-4746-1077-3.
• Iliadis, Andrew (2022). Semantic media: Mapping meaning on the internet. Polity Press.

2020

• Sanger, Larry (2020). Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge. Sanger Press. ISBN   978-1-7357954-1-6. OCLC   1264169919.

2016

• Kennedy, Krista (2016). Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and Chambers' Cyclopaedia. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN   978-1-61117-710-7. OCLC   960969285.

2013

• van Dijck, José (2013). The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-997078-0.

2012

• Burke, Peter (2012). A Social History of Knowledge, II. From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia. Cambridge, UK: Polity. ISBN   978-0-7456-5042-5. OCLC   773420759.

2011

• Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN   978-0-375-42372-7. ^[11]

2009

• O'Neil, Mathieu (2009). Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and authority in online tribes. Pluto Press.
• Fallis, Don (February 2009). "The Epistemology of Mass Collaboration (special issue)". Episteme. 6 (1). doi:10.3366/E1742360008000506. S2CID   144644658.

2007

• Keen, Andrew (2007). The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. Crown Business. ISBN   9780385520805. ^[12]

2006

• 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.
• Tapscott, Don; D. Williams, Anthony (2006). Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything . New York: Portfolio. ISBN   1-59184-138-0.

Wikipedia as source material

Wikipedia is free content which anybody can edit, use, modify, and distribute. Several books have used Wikipedia as source material or as their data source while others have compiled articles for artistic, educational, or commercial purposes.

2016

• Weichbrodt, Gregor (2016). Dictionary of non-notable Artists. Berlin: Frohmann Verlag. ISBN   9783944195421.

2015

• Michael Mandiberg (2015) Print Wikipedia

2011

• Skiena, Steven; Ward, Charles (2014). Who's Bigger?: Where Historical Figures Really Rank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1107041370. ^{[13] [14]}

2010

• Bridle, James, ed. (2010). The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs. ^{[15] [16] [17] [18]}
• Fruhlinger, Josh; Lastowka, Conor (2011). [Citation Needed]: The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN   9781466346987. ^{[19] [20]}

See also

• Academic studies of Wikipedia
• List of films about Wikipedia

References

1. American Library Association. "Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge". APAstore. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
2. "[클릭 신간] 위키백과, 우리 모두의 백과사전 외 2권". Digital Times. Retrieved 2 Jan 2026.
3. "NKC/Knihy - Úplné zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz. Archived from the original on 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
4. Bulatovic, Peja (January 14, 2011). "Wikipedia turns 10". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
5. Solon, Olivia (January 11, 2011). "A Decade Of Wikipedia, The Poster Child For Collaboration". Wired . Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
6. David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009)
7. "Everybody Knows Everything" Archived 2017-08-27 at the Wayback Machine , Jeremy Philips, The Wall Street Journal , March 18, 2009
8. "Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City" Archived 2017-03-14 at the Wayback Machine , Noam Cohen, The New York Times , March 28, 2009
9. "How Wikipedia Works [review]" (PDF). Sacramento Book Review. October 2008. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2011.
10. "The Charms of Wikipedia" Archived 2008-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , a review by Nicholson Baker, The New York Review of Books , Volume 55, No. 4, March 20, 2008.
11. Dyson, Freeman (2011-03-10). "How We Know". The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2017-07-21. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
12. Kakutani, Michiko (2007-06-29). "The Cult of the Amateur". The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2013-03-27. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
13. Kevin Hartnett (November 29, 2013). "The most important people who ever lived". Boston Globe . Archived from the original on December 4, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
14. Cass Sunstein (December 3, 2013). "Statistically, Who's the Greatest Person in History? Why quants can't measure historic significance". The New Republic . Archived from the original on December 5, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
15. Jones, Nate (7 September 2010). "Wikipedia Entry on Iraq War Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia". Time . Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
16. Geere, Duncan (8 September 2010). "Which Wikipedia page has 12 volumes worth of edits?". wired.co.uk. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
17. Bilton, Nick (9 September 2010). "The Story Behind a Wikipedia Entry - NYTimes.com". bits.blogs.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
18. Madrigal, Alexis (17 September 2010). "A Book Made from Wikipedia Edits to the 'The Iraq War' Entry". The Atlantic . Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
19. "Hit Tumblr Mocks Wikipedia's Most Ridiculous Claims". Mashable. 6 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
20. conorlstowka (June 3, 2013). "11 Most Inspiring Things Ever Published on Wikipedia". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017.

External links

• Wikilit: a literature review of scholarly research on Wikipedia Archived 2022-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Wikimedia research newsletter