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How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It
$29.95
From learning how to use Wikipedia to contributing to existing articles by fact-checking and adding new articles that confirm to Wikipedia's guidelines, HOW WIKIPEDIA WORKS is a top pick for general-interest libraries and for any who would become part of Wikipedia and make contributions to the system. From understanding its policies to resolving content disputes and handling malicious editors, HOW WIKIPEDIA WORKS is packed with insights.

Wikipedia Revolution, The: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
$24.99
The book is an extensive and complete overview of Wikipedia's rise to power. At times it seems a bit too technical (with lines like "Most readers experience Linux through packages such as Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian, and Fedora") but to quote George Costanza, "It's me, it's not you."

Author Lih left me with a few questions:
1. Why bemoan Wikipedia's lack of viral growth in the last few years? Shouldn't the writing of an encyclopedia naturally slow up when the major topics have been covered?
2. In effect, isn't the entire Internet just one big encyclopedia anyway? You go to the index (Google, Bing, etc.), get the list of "pages," and then chose an article. This makes Wikipedia just a smaller encyclopedia inside a larger, more extensive one.
3. No ads? How can foundations and donations pay for all this?
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Wikipedia Kompakt - Die freie Enzyklop���die. Ausgabe 2007/2008. DVD-ROM f���r Windows NT, 2000, XP oder Vista
$16.34

Mediawiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)
$39.99
MediaWiki is an amazingly beautiful and powerful documentation and communication tool. However like many such powerful tools its configuration and management can be maddeningly complex. This book is a well done concise guide to all things MediaWiki. If you're simply making modifications to a wiki or installing and administering one this book is WELL worth the investment.