Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?

by Dan O'Sullivan

Book Overview

During its brief existence Wikipedia has proved astonishingly successful with 2.8 million articles in English alone available freely to all with access to the internet. The 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138267740
• ISBN13: 9781138267749
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"