Bibliography of Wikipedia

Last updated December 04, 2023

This is a list of books about Wikipedia or for which Wikipedia is a major subject.

Wikipedia as primary subject

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.
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]
Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Hyperion. ISBN 9781401303716.^[4]^[5]
O'Sullivan, Dan (2009). Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754674337. OCLC 320696473.
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.^[6]^[7]
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.^[8]
Lovink, Geert; Tkacz, Nathaniel, eds. (2011). Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. ISBN 978-90-78146-13-1.
Anderson, Jennifer Joline (2011). Kesselring, Mari (ed.). Wikipedia: The Company and Its Founders. Technology Pioneers. ABDO Publishing. ISBN 9781617148125. LCCN 2010037886. OCLC 767732162.
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.
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.
Tkacz, Nathaniel (2014). Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-19244-4.
Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates (2014) How Wikipedia Works and How You Can Be a Part of It. 9781593271763
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.
Walter Isaacson (2015) The Innovators 9781476708706
Diraneyya, Abbad (2016). Hikayat Wikibedia (Story of Wikipedia) (in Arabic). Online: Arabic Librebooks.
Lund, Arwid (2017). Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism: A Realm of Freedom?. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-3-319-50690-6.
Proffitt, Merrilee, ed. (2018). Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge. American Library Association. ISBN 978-0838916322.^[9]
Teodorani, Alda (2020). Memorie da Wikipedia (in Italian). Rome: Rogas. ISBN 978-8899700386.
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.
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.
Maher Asaad Baker (2021), How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles^[10]
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. ISBN 978-0-262-04629-9. OCLC 1295611957.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Kopf, Susanne (2022). A discursive perspective on Wikipedia : more than an encyclopaedia?. Cham. ISBN 978-3-031-11024-5. OCLC 1347021502.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Thomas, Paul A. (2022). Inside Wikipedia : how it works and how you can be an editor. Lanham. ISBN 978-1-5381-6321-4. OCLC 1301904061.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Jönsson, Johan (2022). Wikipedia inifrån (in Swedish). Stockholm: Verbal förlag. ISBN 978-9-1891-5586-2. OCLC 1310351794.

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.^[11]
Fallis, Don (February 2009). "The Epistemology of Mass Collaboration (special issue)". Episteme. 6 (1). doi:10.3366/E1742360008000506. S2CID 144644658.
Gleick, James (2011). The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-42372-7.^[12]
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.
van Dijck, José (2013). The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-997078-0.
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.
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.
Graham, Mark; Dittus, Martin (2022). Geographies of Digital Exclusion Data and Inequality (PDF). Radical Geography. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-1-78680-742-7.

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.

Bridle, James, ed. (2010). The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs.^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]
Fruhlinger, Josh; Lastowka, Conor (2011). [Citation Needed]: The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781466346987.^[17]^[18]
Skiena, Steven; Ward, Charles (2014). Who's Bigger?: Where Historical Figures Really Rank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107041370.^[19]^[20]
Weichbrodt, Gregor (2016). Dictionary of non-notable Artists. Berlin: Frohmann Verlag. ISBN 9783944195421.
Michael Mandiberg Print Wikipedia

Related Research Articles

An encyclopedia or encyclopædia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name or by thematic categories, or else are hyperlinked and searchable. Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries. Generally speaking, encyclopedia articles focus on factual information concerning the subject named in the article's title; this is unlike dictionary entries, which focus on linguistic information about words, such as their etymology, meaning, pronunciation, use, and grammatical forms.

Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world. Modern science is typically divided into three major branches: natural sciences, which study the physical world; the social sciences, which study individuals and societies; and the formal sciences, which study formal systems, governed by axioms and rules. There is disagreement whether the formal sciences are science disciplines, because they do not rely on empirical evidence. Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in engineering and medicine.

Knowledge is a form of awareness or familiarity. It is often understood as awareness of facts or as practical skills, and may also mean familiarity with objects or situations. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional knowledge, is often defined as true belief that is distinct from opinion or guesswork by virtue of justification. While there is wide agreement among philosophers that propositional knowledge is a form of true belief, many controversies in philosophy focus on justification. This includes questions like whether justification is needed at all, how to understand it, and whether something else besides it is needed. These controversies intensified due to a series of thought experiments by Edmund Gettier and have provoked various alternative definitions. Some of them deny that justification is necessary and suggest alternative criteria. Others accept that justification is an essential aspect and formulate additional requirements.

GNE was a project to create a free content online encyclopedia, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation. The project was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000 and officially started in January 2001. It was moderated by Héctor Facundo Arena, an Argentine programmer and GNU activist.

Theda Skocpol is an American sociologist and political scientist, who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is best known as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches, as well as her "state autonomy theory". She has written widely for both popular and academic audiences. She has been President of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association.

"The Use of Knowledge in Society" is a scholarly article written by economist Friedrich Hayek, first published in the September 1945 issue of The American Economic Review.

Philosophy is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions.

Mona Siddiqui is a British academic. She is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She is also a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, Sunday and The Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4, and to The Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian, Sunday Herald.

"Ignore all rules" (IAR) is a policy in the English Wikipedia. It reads: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." [emphasis in original]. The rule was proposed by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger to encourage editors to add information without focusing excessively on formatting, though Sanger later criticized the rule's effects on the community.

Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. This type of action highlights the desires of an individual or group that feels that something needs to change to improve the current condition of the resisting person or group.

Lawrence Mark Sanger is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of the online encyclopedia Nupedia and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name 'Wikipedia', and wrote many of Wikipedia's early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Sanger later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia Ballotpedia.

Nupedia was an English-language online encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with appropriate subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication, and licensed as free content. It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief. Nupedia operated from October 1999 until September 2003. It is best known today as the predecessor of Wikipedia. Nupedia had a seven-step approval process to control content of articles before being posted, rather than live wiki-based updating. Nupedia was designed by a committee of experts who predefined the rules. It had only 21 articles in its first year, compared to Wikipedia having 200 articles in the first month, and 18,000 in the first year.

<i>Good Faith Collaboration</i> 2010 book by Joseph Michael Reagle

Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia is a 2010 book by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. that deals with the topic of Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community. The book was first published on August 27, 2010, through the MIT Press and has a foreword by Lawrence Lessig. The book is an ethnographic study of the history of Wikipedia, its real life and theoretical precursors, and its culture including its consensus and collaborative practices.

Joseph Michael Reagle Jr. is an American academic and writer focused on digital technology and culture, including Wikipedia, online comments, geek feminism, and life hacking. He is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He was an early member of the World Wide Web Consortium, based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1998 and 2010 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Dariusz Jemielniak is a professor of management at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and vice-president of Polish Academy of Sciences.

Nathaniel Tkacz is a Swedish-Australian scholar of digital media who is currently Reader at the University of Warwick. His research on Wikipedia has been influential in media studies and organisational theory. Tkacz has described his work as investigating "the political, economic and organisational dimensions of technology, with a specific focus on networked and digital forms".

Various publications and commentators have offered a range of predictions of the end of Wikipedia since it rose to prominence. Multiple potential dangers have been proposed, such as a lack of quality-control and inconsistent editors/administrators.

In Wikipedia and similar wikis, an edit count is a record of the number of edits performed by a particular editor, or by all editors on a particular page. An edit, in this context, is an individually recorded change to the content of a page. Within Wikimedia projects, a number of tools exist to determine and compare edit counts, resulting in their usage for various purposes, with both positive and negative effects.

<i>Wikipedia @ 20</i> Book of essays about Wikipedia

Wikipedia @ 20 is a book of essays about Wikipedia published by the MIT Press in late 2020, marking 20 years since the creation of Wikipedia. It was edited by academic and author Joseph M. Reagle Jr. and social researcher Jackie Koerner. Contributions came from 34 other Wikipedians, Wikimedians, academics, researchers, journalists, librarians, artists and others, reflecting on particular histories and future themes in Wikipedia discussions.

Jason Moore is an American Wikipedia editor among the English Wikipedia's most active contributors by edit count. Editing since 2007 as "Another Believer", he has specialized in current events, with coverage including the COVID-19 pandemic, George Floyd protests, and the culture of Portland, Oregon, where he is based. On Wikipedia, Moore has created and developed editor affinity groups for joint work on these topics. As an organizer in the Wikimedia movement, Moore has hosted meet-ups and edit-a-thons to train new editors.

References

↑ "How Wikipedia Works [review]" (PDF). Sacramento Book Review. October 2008. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2011.
↑ "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.
↑ David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009)
↑ "Everybody Knows Everything" Archived 2017-08-27 at the Wayback Machine , Jeremy Philips, The Wall Street Journal , March 18, 2009
↑ "Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City" Archived 2017-03-14 at the Wayback Machine , Noam Cohen, The New York Times , March 28, 2009
↑ Bulatovic, Peja (January 14, 2011). "Wikipedia turns 10". CBC News. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2011.
↑ 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.
↑ "NKC/Knihy - Úplné zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz. Archived from the original on 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
↑ American Library Association. "Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge". APAstore. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
↑ "How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles". Goodreads. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Jones, Nate (7 September 2010). "Wikipedia Entry on Iraq War Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia". time.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
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↑ 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.

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[review-1] "How Wikipedia Works [review]" (PDF). Sacramento Book Review. October 2008. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2011.

[charms-2] "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.

[3] David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009)

[4] "Everybody Knows Everything" Archived 2017-08-27 at the Wayback Machine , Jeremy Philips, The Wall Street Journal , March 18, 2009

[5] "Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City" Archived 2017-03-14 at the Wayback Machine , Noam Cohen, The New York Times , March 28, 2009

[6] Bulatovic, Peja (January 14, 2011). "Wikipedia turns 10". CBC News. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2011.

[7] 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.

[8] "NKC/Knihy - Úplné zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz. Archived from the original on 2022-08-30. Retrieved 2022-08-30.

[9] American Library Association. "Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge". APAstore. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2019.

[10] "How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles". Goodreads. Retrieved 2023-11-15.

[NYT1-11] 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.

[NYR1-12] 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.

[jones-13] Jones, Nate (7 September 2010). "Wikipedia Entry on Iraq War Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia". time.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2012.

[14] 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.

[15] 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.

[16] 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.

[17] "Hit Tumblr Mocks Wikipedia's Most Ridiculous Claims". Mashable. 6 June 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-01-07.

[18] rlstowka (June 3, 2013). "11 Most Inspiring Things Ever Published on Wikipedia". BuzzFeed. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017.

[globe-19] 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.

[tnr-20] 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.

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