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Interesting accounts of the possible ramifications of collaborative social efforts over the Internet include Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002); Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture (2007); David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2007); and Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008), and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010). The development of Wikipedia in particular is chronicled in Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia (2009).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: University of California - eScholarship - Wikipedia, User-Generated Content, and the Future of Reference Sources (PDF). | Jul 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California - eScholarship - Wikipedia, User-Generated Content, and the Future of Reference Sources (PDF). | Jun 16, 2025 | ||
| Edited image tagging and added cross-references. | Sep 06, 2024 | ||
| Added media. | Aug 12, 2024 | ||
| Added cross-references, revised, and updated. | Aug 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media - Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Wikipedia: Why is the common knowledge resource still neglected by academics? | Mar 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: History-Computer - Wikipedia: Complete Guide � History, Products, Founding, And More. | Jul 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: TIME - A Brief History of Wikipedia. | Nov 03, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Computer History Museum - Wikipedia. | Aug 16, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 05, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Monash University - Caulfield School of Information Technology - On the Evolution of Wikipedia: Dynamics of Categories and Articles. | Dec 19, 2018 | ||
| Added material about declining numbers of Wikipedia editors and Wikipedia's gender gap. | Mar 23, 2017 | ||
| Changed "John Seigenthaler, Sr." to "John Seigenthaler, Jr." | Oct 28, 2014 | ||
| In the section Origin and growth, added "based on wiki software" to the sentence describing an open-source encyclopaedia. |
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Aug 17, 2011 | |
| Updated various statistics and information about the growth of Wikipedia. Revised discussion of the site's response to vandalism and its philosophy on openness. | Jan 11, 2011 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Dec 29, 2008 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Oct 07, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 10, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 08, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 27, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 10, 2006 | ||
| New article added. | May 19, 2006 |
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