How Wikipedia works [electronic resource] : and how you can be a part of it / Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates.
By: Ayers, Phoebe.
Contributor(s): Matthews, Charles | Yates, Ben | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: San Francisco : No Starch Press, c2008Description: xxiv, 507 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Wikipedia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Wikipedia | User-generated content | Electronic encyclopedias | Social mediaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 030.285 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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