Format:
1 online resource (540 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781593272272
Content:
Wikipedia is made up of people just like you: students, professors, and everyday experts and fans. With about 10,000 articles added to Wikipedia each week, there are plenty of opportunities to join this global community. How Wikipedia Works explains how you can make the Web's go-to source for information even better. You'll learn the skills required to use and contribute to the world's largest reference work-like what constitutes good writing and research and how to work with images and templates. Instead of wondering where to begin, the question will be "How far will you go?".
Content:
Intro -- Introduction -- Inside This Book -- What You Should Know Going In -- Using This Book -- Our Approach to Understanding Wikipedia -- It's Everyone's Encyclopedia: Be Bold! -- Wikisyntax Cheatsheet -- Part I: Content -- 1: What's in Wikipedia? -- Types of Articles -- Article and Content Inclusion Policies -- Core Policies: V, NOR, and NPOV -- Understanding the Policies -- Other Guidelines -- What Wikipedia Is Not -- Non-article Content -- Types of Non-article Pages -- Namespaces -- Summary and What to Read Next -- 2: The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia -- Wikipedia's Mission -- Wikipedia's Roots -- Ancient Greece to Today: Encyclopedias -- Late 17th Century: The Modern Encyclopedia -- Wikipedia as an Encyclopedia -- The 1960s and 1970s: Unix, Networks, and Personal Computers -- The 1980s: Free Software Movement -- 1995: Ward's Wiki -- 1997: Open Source Communities -- 2000: Online Community Dynamics -- 2001: Wikipedia Goes Live -- Wikipedia Today -- Unfinished Business -- The Wikipedia Model Debated -- Misinformation: The Seigenthaler Scandal -- Amateur Contributors, Authority, and Academia -- Summary -- 3: Finding Wikipedia's Content -- Searching Wikipedia -- Basic Searching -- External Search Engines -- Ways into Wikipedia -- Welcome to the Main Page -- The Omnipresent Sidebar -- Joys of Hypertext -- A Hypertext Primer -- Three Types of Links -- Browsing by Topic -- Browsing by Categories -- Browsing by Page Type -- Summary -- 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article -- Anatomy of an Article -- The Article Text -- Backlinks -- Article History -- Talk Pages -- Evaluating Articles -- Misinformation, Missing Information, and Mistakes -- D-R-E-W-S -- Summary -- Final Thoughts for Part I -- Part II: Editing -- 5: Basic Editing -- Editing a Page -- Understanding the Edit Window -- Major vs. Minor Edits -- Handling Major Editing Tasks.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781593271763
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ayers, Phoebe How Wikipedia works San Francisco, Calif. : No Starch Press, 2008 ISBN 159327176X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781593271763
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Wikipedia
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