The delightful authors of "How Wikipedia Works" are some of our very brightest and best. It's a fantastic book, to which I refer people regularly.
They include, by the way, the lovely and talented Phoebe.
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On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:29 AM, John M. Sinclair wrote:
Phoebe, thank you! I want to help but have been watching the emails in this forum in stupid silence for weeks now, not knowing how the whole thing was put together, or what anyone's role was.
I just ordered How Wikipedia Works. I hope the foundation is getting a cut.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of phoebe ayers Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 10:40 AM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] the Foundation
Hi Tyler!
The history of wikis is pretty well documented here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis
And the history of Wikipedia and how it came to be is analyzed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia, and also at length in the book "The Wikipedia Revolution", by Andrew Lih.
If you're curious about the Wikimedia Foundation, which this is the mailing list for, it's described briefly in the book "How Wikipedia Works": http://howwikipediaworks.com/ch17.html
cheers, Phoebe
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Tyler programmer651@comcast.net wrote:
Is Jimmy Wales on this list? Jimmy, what inspired you to do a WIKI
pedia? Were you inspired by the earlier wiki encyclopedia known as WikiWikiWeb (c2.com)? Were there any other wikis before you besides that c2 wiki?
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