Wikipedia
Subtitle: a new community of practice?
By: by Dan O'Sullivan.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754674337
Subjects: Wikipedia; Communities of practice -- Case studies; Communication in learning and scholarship
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Group theory; title: The Library of Alexandria; title: The Royal Society; title: The republic of letters; title: The making of the Oxford English dictionary; title: The Left Book Club; title: Social sites; title: Wikipedia : aims; title: Wikipedia : the community; title: Wikipedia : structure; title: Wikipedia : transaction costs; title: Wikipedia and the public; title: Wikipedia and the nature of knowledge; title: Browsing Wikipedia; title: Assessing Wikipedia; title: Contributing to Wikipedia.