The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia

Wikipedia began as a experimental pet project in 2001. A nonprofit organization with no editor-in-chief--just thousands of devoted voluteers who write and edit its articles, as of early 2008 Wikipedia had become a global information brand containing well over 8 million articles written in 253 languages (over 2 million of these articles--1 billion words--are in English). In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman, The Wikipedia Revolution will describe Wikipedia's inception and its remarkable growth, and explain its larger cultural repercussions. It will also chronicle the colorful community of Wikipedia contributors, whose goals have sometimes clashed, but all of whom have banded together out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. Lih also addresses the phenomon's most articlulate critics and the somtimes difficult evolution Wikipedia has undergone as it has growns. As a gesture to wiki culture the final chapter of THE WIKIPEDIA REVOLUTION will be edited online by select Wikipedia contributors.