[Sca-cooks] Andrew Dalby's new book
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Sep 22 03:58:29 PDT 2009
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
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