Wikipedia:Wikipedia in books

December 2006

• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams explores how some companies in the early 21st century used mass collaboration and open-source technology such as wikis to be successful.

• Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies mentions Wikipedia in Chapter 6 (Portrayals), page 460/461 with the words: [A]nd there is Wikipedia, the self-regulating Internet encyclopedia, to which anyone can contribute. Professional historians tend to distrust such websites. The Web they say, is dangerous. It is full of dubious statements and manifest errors. So, too, one might add, is every other source of historical information.

October 2006

• Brafman, Ori; Beckstrom, Rod A. (October 5, 2006). The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. Penguin. ISBN 1-59184-143-7. discusses the success of Wikipedia as a decentralized model and interviews Jimmy Wales on the formation of Wikipedia

October 2005

• 20th: J Shaun Lyon. Back to the Vortex: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who 2005, ISBN 1-903889-78-2. Appendix E: For Further Information... Page 413. "The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has an entire section devoted to Doctor Who (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who)."

July 2005

• 1st: Kay Johnson, Elaine Magusin, Exploring the Digital Library : A Guide for Online Teaching and Learning, Online Teaching and Learning Series, ISBN 0-787976-27-X. Talks about the processes that make Wikipedia work.

June 2005

• 10th: Jeremy M. Norman, From Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook on the History of Information Technology, ISBN 0-930405-87-0. Page 10: "... such as blogs and huge cooperative encyclopedic publications like the Wikipedia (www.en.wikipedia.org) edited by people all over the world. But the ..."
• 16th: Kimiz Dalkir, Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice, ISBN 0-750678-64-X. Refers to us for the article Wiki.
• 27th: Mary Leete, Free Software For Dummies, ISBN 0-764595-79-2. References Wikipedia and eBay as "search engine"s, along with true examples.

April 2005

• 11th: Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel, Innovation Happens Elsewhere : Open Source as Business Strategy, ISBN 1-558608-89-3. Excerpt from page 60 "... involve software source code. One of the most interesting is Wikipedia.'7 Wikipedia is an encyclopedia contributed entirely by volunteer efforts, using ..."
• 15th: J. D. Lasica, Darknet : Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471683-34-5. Excerpt from page 83 "... the comic too, so I have to do that part." Wikipedia has been an amazing success story. The free-content encyclopedia-where anyone ..."
• 25th: Danny Ayers, Andrew Watt, Beginning RSS and Atom Programming, ISBN 0-764579-16-9. Page 427 "... collaborative projects. Two notable projects that use Wikis are the Wikipedia (http: //en.wikipedia. org), a free encyclopedia with more than one ..."
• 25th: Peter Weverka, The Everyday Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, ISBN 0-764588-75-3. Page 151 has an image of "Wikipedia, the encyclopedia and ongoing collaborative experiment." (it's Figure 5-2)
• 28th: Glenn Yeffeth (ed), The Anthology at the End of the Universe : Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Smart Pop series, ISBN 1-932100-56-3. Page 27 "... Wikipedia: A Genuine H2G2-Minus the Editors 27 Since the dawn of ..."

March 2005

• 28th: Ellen Finkelstein, Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies, For Dummies, ISBN 0-764588-48-6, references Podcasting
• 28th: Susannah Gardner, Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, For Dummies, ISBN 076458457X, references Googlebomb
• Glenn Yeffeth, ed., The Anthology at the End of the Universe, chapter titled "Wikipedia: A Genuine H2G2-Minus the Editors", by Corey Doctorow, ISBN 1-932100-56-3

January 2005

• 30th: Peter L. Bernstein, Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393052-33-8, uses image image:ElectoralCollege 1824-Large.png and references it
• 28th: Terry Burnham, Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality, Wiley, ISBN 0-471602-45-0, p. 272 "... could not anticipate such an unlikely turn of events. Interestingly, wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, lists macroeconomics as a “see also” topic ..."
• Nora Miller, Wikipedia and the disappearing "author" (an article from ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, published by International Society for General Semantics) The article begins "WHAT DOES it mean to author a piece of writing? For many generations, humans inscribed clay tablets and recorded information on papyrus but only rarely included their own names in the documents they produced. Many of the most famous works of antiquity come to us as accounts of words spoken by someone else."

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• Andersen, Espen (2005). Using Wikis in a Corporate Context. Handbuch E-Learning. A. Hohenstein and K. Wilbers (eds). Köln, WoltersKluwer. 5.8: 15.

December 2004

• 29th: Stephen Yafa, Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map, Viking Adult, ISBN 0670033677, references Patents#Early history of patents

November 2004

• Kenneth Pollack, The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America, references 1973 energy crisis

September 2004

• 1st: Peter Lance, Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror, Regan Books, ISBN 0060543558, references RDX
• John Gantz, Jack B. Rochester, Pirates of the Digital Millennium : How the Intellectual Property Wars Damage Our Personal Freedoms, Our Jobs, and the World Economy. ISBN 0131463152

August 2004

• 16th: Jack Greenfield, et al., Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools, Wiley, ISBN 0471202843
• 15th: Jerry Wind et al., The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business, Wharton School Publishing, ISBN 0131425021, references Wikipedia on page 8: "...consider a very different model presented by the Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com). There are no distinguished experts who sign their small entries..."
• Dan Gillmor, We the Media. ISBN 0596007337

June 2004

• 29th: David T. Hardy, Jason Clarke, Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man, Regan Books, ISBN 0060763957, references Narcissism

May 2004

• Ben H. Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly. ISBN 0807061875

April 2004

• 1st: Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, Penguin Books, ISBN 1594200130, references U.S.-led coalition against Iraq#Invasion coalition
• Thomas W. Malone, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life, Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 1591391253, quote: "... a basic Web site for the encyclopedia and called it Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). Wiki, the Hawaiian term for "quick," refers to the ..."
• Thomas W. Malone, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life. ISBN 1591391253 Published by the Harvard Business School, nonetheless.

March 2004

• Pamela McCorduck, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. ISBN 1568812051

June 2003

• Leonard Sweet, Jesus Drives Me Crazy!. ISBN 0310232244, quote (pp. 72-73):