3 options
How Wikipedia works : and how you can be a part of it / Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ayers, Phoebe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- User-generated content.
- Electronic encyclopedias.
- Social media.
- Wikipedia--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Wikipedia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (540 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : No Starch Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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?"
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593272272
- 1593272278
- OCLC:
- 830164388
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.