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      A New Community of Practice?

      Wikipedia

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      Wikipedia book

      A New Community of Practice?
      ByDan O'Sullivan
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2009
      eBook Published 22 February 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547183
      Pages 200
      eBook ISBN 9781315547183
      Subjects Education, Humanities, Language & Literature, Reference & Information Science
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      O'Sullivan, D. (2009). Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice? (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547183

      ABSTRACT

      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, suggesting how to approach and contribute to the site, and what can be gained from using it. Writing in an accessible style the author takes a socio-historical approach and argues that by looking at communities of practice in the past we can come to understand the radical, even political, nature of Wikipedia. The book will have a broad appeal to anyone interested in the development of this unique project, including information management professionals but also historians, sociologists, educators and students.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |4 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      Part I Groups in History

      chapter 1|8 pages

      Group Theory

      chapter 2|10 pages

      The Library of Alexandria

      chapter 3|10 pages

      The Royal Society

      chapter 4|12 pages

      The Republic of Letters

      chapter 5|10 pages

      The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

      chapter 6|12 pages

      The Left Book Club

      part |2 pages

      Part II Wikipedia

      chapter 7|6 pages

      Social Sites

      chapter 8|8 pages

      Wikipedia: Aims

      chapter 9|8 pages

      Wikipedia: The Community

      chapter 10|12 pages

      Wikipedia: Structure

      chapter 11|8 pages

      Wikipedia: Transaction Costs

      chapter 12|8 pages

      Wikipedia and the Public

      chapter 13|8 pages

      Wikipedia and the Nature of Knowledge

      part |2 pages

      Part III Using Wikipedia

      chapter 14|6 pages

      Browsing Wikipedia

      chapter 15|40 pages

      Assessing Wikipedia

      chapter 16|6 pages

      Contributing to Wikipedia

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