[Foundation-l] the Foundation

[Philippe Beaudette]

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.

pb


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Philippe Beaudette	
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation

philippe at wikimedia.org


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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 at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at 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 at 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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