[Sca-cooks] Andrew Dalby's new book

[Johnna Holloway]

Came across Andrew Dalby's new book.
It's not on ancient foods or the cookery of the Romans this time.
Not even another tome on spices.

It's The World and Wikipedia: How we are editing reality.
http://www.siduri.co.uk/index.php?section=book&id=1

Trawling the forgotten talk pages and article histories of Wikipedia's  
archives, as well as drawing on his own experience as a Wikipedian,  
Andrew Dalby illustrates how articles change and grow over time, how  
the Wikipedia community responds (or fails to respond) to extremists,  
revisionists, self-interested parties and vandals, and how it reacts  
to good and bad publicity. Prominent editors and influential  
administrators are followed closely to reveal a surprising array of  
intentions and - at times - intriguing connections to the real world.  
The resultant articles are shown to vary from the outrageously and  
persistently inaccurate to the astonishingly up-to-date and reliable.

It's due out in the states in late October.

Johnnae