How Wikipedia works : and how you can be a part of it / Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates

Author:: Ayers, Phoebe
Published:: San Francisco : No Starch Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xxiv, 507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Matthews, Charles, 1954- and Yates, Ben

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Contents:

What's in Wikipedia? -- The world gets a free encyclopedia -- Finding Wikipedia's content -- Understanding and evaluating an article -- Basic editing -- Good writing and research -- Cleanup, projects, and processes -- Make and mend Wikipedia's web -- image, templates, and special characters -- The life cycle of an article -- Becoming a Wikipedian -- Community and communication -- Policy and your input -- Dispute, blocks, and bans -- 200 languages and counting -- Wikimedia commons and other sister projects -- The foundation and project coordination.

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ISBN:

9781593271763
159327176X

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Scranton copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20089.

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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