Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, has served as a major subject of various works of academic literature.
Wikipedia as primary subject 2007
2008
"The Charms of Wikipedia" , a review by Nicholson Baker, The New York Review of Books, Volume 55, No. 4, March 20, 2008.
2009 David Cox, "The Truth According To Wikipedia" in Evening Standard (22 October 2009) "Everybody Knows Everything" , Jeremy Philips, The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2009"Wikipedia: Exploring Fact City" , Noam Cohen, The New York Times, March 28, 2009
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Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates (2014) How Wikipedia Works and How You Can Be a Part of It. 9781593271763
2015
Ford, Heather (2015). Fact Factories: Wikipedia and the power to represent. Walter Isaacson (2015) The Innovators 9781476708706
2016
Merz, Manuel (2016). Die Wikipedia-Community: Typologie der Autorinnen und Autoren der freien Online-Enzyklopädie (in German). Wiesbaden. .
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2021 Maher Asaad Baker (2021), How I wrote a million Wikipedia articles
2022
2024
Harrison, Stephen (2024). The Editors. Inkshares. ISBN 978-1-95030-167-6.
2025 Lapointe, Jean-Michel & Martel, Marie D., eds. (2025). Le mouvement Wikimédia au Canada: Communautés, institutions et culture libre. Presses de l'Université de Montréal.
2026 Alevizou, Giota. (2026). The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age. Polity.
Wikipedia as major non-primary subject
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Wikipedia as source material Wikipedia is free content which anybody can edit, use, modify, and distribute. Several books have used Wikipedia as source material or as their data source while others have compiled articles for artistic, educational, or commercial purposes.
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2015 Michael Mandiberg (2015) Print Wikipedia
2016
See also Academic studies of Wikipedia Critical Wikimedia Research Bibliography Bibliography of Wikidata List of films about Wikipedia
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