Wikipedia a new community of practice? /

• Main Author: O'Sullivan, Dan.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
• Subjects: Wikipedia.; Communities of practice > Case studies.; Communication in learning and scholarship.; REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.; REFERENCE.; REFERENCE > Trivia.; REFERENCE > Curiosities & Wonders.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

This online encyclopedia can be seen as the 21st century's version of earlier historical attempts to gather the world's knowledge into one place - this unique book offers a description of some of these earlier attempts. O'Sullivan follows with a thorough analysis of Wikipedia itself,...

Table of Contents:

• Group theory
• The Library of Alexandria
• The Royal Society
• The republic of letters
• The making of the Oxford English dictionary
• The Left Book Club
• Social sites
• Wikipedia : aims
• Wikipedia : the community
• Wikipedia : structure
• Wikipedia : transaction costs
• Wikipedia and the public
• Wikipedia and the nature of knowledge
• Browsing Wikipedia
• Assessing Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia.