¹ See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die.
² See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopaedia%2C_or_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences.
³ Daniel H. Pink, "The Book Stops Here," Wired, March, 2005, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html, accessed November 2006.
⁴ Stacy Schiff, "Know It All," The New Yorker, July, 2006, http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact, accessed November, 2006.
⁵ Available at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ (partially excerpted here).
⁶ See http://nupedia.8media.org/policy.shtml#assignmentov.
⁷ See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia.
⁸ Daniel H. Pink, "The Book Stops Here," Wired, March, 2005, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html, accessed November 2006.
⁹ "Wiki" is the Hawaiian word for "quick." Cunningham wanted to convey the idea that his invention made Web page editing and updating a quick and simple process.
¹⁰ Marshall Poe, "The Hive," The Atlantic Monthly, September, 2006, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia, accessed November, 2006.
¹¹ Articles that contain at least one internal link and 200 (ja,ko,zh:50) characters readable text, disregarding wiki- and html codes, hidden links, and headers.
¹² The English Wikipedia had 1.2 million and 511 million words, giving a mean article length of 415 words and over 3 billion total characters. It also had 726,000 photographs and illustrations, over 2.1 million links to other websites, and 27.4 million cross-reference links between articles.
¹³ http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseImageLinks.htm, accessed November 22, 2006.
¹⁴ Unregistered users, who were also called anonymous users, could not create new articles, move pages, upload media, or maintain a watchlist. They could also not edit articles with "semiprotected" status. Pages were put under this status in response to vandalism from multiple anonymous or newly created accounts. Semiprotection was usually considered a temporary measure to ward off sudden swarming of interest groups on particular topics. "Protected" status was reserved for Wikipedia pages that were prone to routine vandalism (e.g., Main Page) or that needed to be static for legal purposes (e.g., Copyright and Licenses pages). Articles could be temporarily protected to enforce a "cool-down" period to stop an edit war or to ward off persistent vandalism.
¹⁵ See http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia.
¹⁶ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:GRFA, accessed November 24, 2006.
¹⁷ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:GRFA, accessed November 24, 2006.
¹⁸ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_administrators, accessed November 24, 2006.
¹⁹ See http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-February/001149.html.
²⁰ http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2005/12/comparing_wikipedia_and_britan_1.html, accessed November 22, 2006.
²¹ Robert McHenry, TCS Daily, "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia," Nov. 15, 2004, http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html, accessed November 22, 2006.
²² http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25, accessed November 22, 2006.
²³ Dirk Riehle, "How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elisabeth Bauer, and Kizu Naoko," in Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym '06), ACM Press, 2006, pp.3-8.
²⁴ http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/07/emergent_bureau.php, accessed November 22, 2006.
²⁵ Andrew P. McAfee, "Enterprise 1.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration," MIT Sloan Management Review, Spring 2006, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp.21-28. Abstract available at http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2006/spring/06/.
²⁶ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Enterprise_2.0_%28second_nomination%29&direction=next&oldid=71703532, accessed November 25, 2006.

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