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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
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- Table of Contents
- + The Missing Credits
- + Introduction
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Part I. Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles
- + Chapter 1. Editing for the First Time
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Chapter 2. Documenting Your Sources
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Chapter 3. Setting Up Your Account and Personal Workspace
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Chapter 4. Creating a New Article
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Chapter 5. Who Did What: Page Histories and Reverting
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Chapter 6. Monitoring Changes
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Chapter 7. Dealing with Vandalism and Spam
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Part II. Collaborating with Other Editors
- + Chapter 8. Communicating with Your Fellow Editors
- + Chapter 9. WikiProjects and Other Group Efforts
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Chapter 10. Resolving Content Disputes
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Chapter 11. Handling Incivility and Personal Attacks
- + Enforcing Norms of Conduct
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Dealing with Incivility and Personal Attacks
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Initial Responses
- Don’t respond until you can respond unemotionally
- Don’t attack back
- Decide if you even need to respond
- Don’t comment about problematical behavior on article talk pages
- If you respond, be factual, not emotional
- Your response should depend on the editor
- Don’t argue about warnings
- Read other editors’ essays about civility
- + Explore Less Formal Solutions
- + Use Formal Processes
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Initial Responses
- + When You Get Irritated (or Worse)
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Chapter 12. Lending Other Editors a Hand
- + Part III. Formatting and Illustrating Articles
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Part IV. Building a Stronger Encyclopedia
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Chapter 16. Getting Readers to the Right Article: Naming, Redirects, and
Disambiguation
- + Chapter 17. Categorizing Articles
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Chapter 18. Better Articles: A Systematic Approach
- Avoid Surprises
- Don’t Suppress or Separate Controversy
- + Reorganize and Edit Existing Content
- + Don’t Take Article Scope as a Given
- + Improve the Citation of Sources
- Build the Web
- Look for Guidance and Examples
- Add Sourced Content
- Remove Cruft and Duplication
- Get the Wording Right
- Make the Article Look Appealing
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Chapter 19. Deleting Existing Articles
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Chapter 16. Getting Readers to the Right Article: Naming, Redirects, and
Disambiguation
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Part V. Customizing Wikipedia
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Part VI. Appendixes
- Index
Want to be part of the largest group-writing project in human history? Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, the user-generated online reference for the 21st century. Considered more popular than eBay, Microsoft.com, and Amazon.com, Wikipedia servers respond to approximately 30,000 requests per second, or about 2.5 billion per day. It's become the first point of reference for people the world over who need a fact fast.
If you want to jump on board and add to the content, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is your first-class ticket. Wikipedia has more than 9 million entries in 250 languages, over 2 million articles in the English language alone. Each one is written and edited by an ever-changing cast of volunteer editors. You can be one of them. With the tips in this book, you'll quickly learn how to get more out of -- and put more into -- this valuable online resource.
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual gives you practical advice on creating articles and collaborating with fellow editors, improving existing articles, and working with the Wikipedia community to review new articles, mediate disputes, and maintain the site. Up to the challenge? This one-of-a-kind book includes:
Basic editing techniques, including the right and wrong ways to edit
Pinpoint advice about which types of articles do and do not belong on Wikipedia
Ways to learn from other editors and communicate with them via the site's talk pages
Tricks for using templates and timesaving automated editing tools
Recommended procedures for fighting spam and vandalism
Guidance on adding citations, links, and images to your articles
Wikipedia depends on people just like you to help the site grow and maintain the highest quality. With Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, you get all the tools you need to be part of the crew.
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Publication year : 2008
License: All rights reserved ©
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