
How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It
And How You Can be a Part of it
No Starch Press
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
536 pages
978-1-59327-176-3 (ISBN)
Description
Wikipedia operates on the basic principle that information should be publicly available and free of charge. Its editorial model is populist and counter-intuitive, allowing anyone to edit its two-million English-language encyclopedia entries. A volunteer organization with a tiny staff, Wikipedia has broken into the world's top ten online sites, and is still growing steadily in content, quality, and traffic.
Wikipedia is one of the world's most trafficked websites, read by hundreds of millions of people in over 200 languages, with coverage of politics, science, the arts, technology, geography, pop culture, history, and more. Anyone can add a new article, or edit existing content, but Wikipedia is poorly understood and can be daunting to new contributors. How Wikipedia Works explains how this vast, collaborative site functions, condensing thousands of hyperlinks of documentation into an easy to use handbook for current or aspiring contributors. It covers the basics-such as navigating, searching, and editing-and dives deeply into difficult topics like advanced syntax, editor etiquette, and administrative policies and processes. The veteran Wikipedians behind this book share the secrets and profound success of this incredible, diverse, and unique community.
Wikipedia is one of the world's most trafficked websites, read by hundreds of millions of people in over 200 languages, with coverage of politics, science, the arts, technology, geography, pop culture, history, and more. Anyone can add a new article, or edit existing content, but Wikipedia is poorly understood and can be daunting to new contributors. How Wikipedia Works explains how this vast, collaborative site functions, condensing thousands of hyperlinks of documentation into an easy to use handbook for current or aspiring contributors. It covers the basics-such as navigating, searching, and editing-and dives deeply into difficult topics like advanced syntax, editor etiquette, and administrative policies and processes. The veteran Wikipedians behind this book share the secrets and profound success of this incredible, diverse, and unique community.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Francisco
Germany
Target group
- Hundreds of millions of Wikipedia readers - The 50,000 active editors of the English Wikipedia - Aspiring Wikipedia editors - Librarians, teachers, and journalists
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
978-1-59327-176-3 (9781593271763)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction Part I: Content Chapter 1: What's in Wikipedia? Chapter 2: The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia Chapter 3: Finding Wikipedia's Content Chapter 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article Part II: Editing Chapter 5: Basic Editing Chapter 6: Good Writing and Research Chapter 7: Cleanup, Projects, and Processes Chapter 8: Make and Mend Wikipedia's Web Chapter 9: Images, Templates, and Special Characters Chapter 10: The Life Cycle of an Article Part III: Community Chapter 11: Becoming a Wikipedian Chapter 12: Community and Communication Chapter 13: Policy and Your Input Chapter 14: Disputes, Blocks, and Bans Part IV: Other Projects Chapter 15: 200 Languages and Counting Chapter 16: Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects Chapter 17: The Foundation and Project Coordination Appendix A: Reusing Wikimedia Content Appendix B: Wikipedia for Teachers Appendix C: Edit Summaries Jargon Appendix D: Glossary Appendix E: History (List of Wikipedia Pages Referenced in This Work) GNU Free Documentation License Index