ISBN10: 1845134737, ISBN13: 9781845134730, [publisher: Aurum] Softcover 252 pages. minor wear, marks, light foxingTH E WIKIPEDIA REVOLUTION: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World 's Greatest Encyclopediaby Andrew LihAurum, UK, 2009ISBN 9781845134730sml trad epb, F rench flaps, 252ppGOOD: minor wear, marks, light foxi ngWikipedia has been hailed as the most revolutionary aid to the spread of human knowledge since Gutenberg's printing press. In less than a decade it has single-handedly invigorated a nd torn up the very idea of an 'encyclopedia'. Today Wikipedia is firmly entrenched in the world's top 10 web sites. It has become so popular we casually stumble across its content every day. Typ e any word into any search engine and more than likely a Wikipedi a page will be the first result. It is increasingly cited in the press, books, legal affairs and politics. But whereas the only we b brands that consistently rank above it - Google, Yahoo and Micr osoft - are multi-billion dollar enterprises, each with tens of t housands of employees, Wikipedia has a paid staff of just 10, wit h an operating budget of little more than $3 million. Instead it depends entirely on a legion of unpaid, often anonymous, voluntee rs. And, since January 2001, these 'Wikipedians' have created mor e than 10 million articles, in over 250 lanuguages, adding and up dating at 'the speed of news' to create nothing less than a 'cont inuous ...