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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual |
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Valuable read |
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2008-04-06 18:46:39 |
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DaveA
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Wikipedia is of course a simple to consume information source, but it's a bit more inscrutable as an editing environment for contributors. This book provides the basics to get you started, and a lot more than that. If you are interested in making some simple submissions, you'll be doing so in no time. But if your interests call for significantly more, you'll find that Wikipedia: The Missing Manual will be there as your guide.
The style is clean and provides a wealth of information is the form of sidebars and illustrations. This book covers many, many fine points that would normally take a great deal of trial and error, or a training course to discover. Philosophical concerns do not get short shrift: there are discussions about how best to name articles, guidelines for deleting or adding to articles and copyright concerns.
For those who are brand new to Wikipedia, you may actually want to start with the Appendices for a beginner's introduction.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to dig deeper into Wikipedia article creation, editing and maintenance.
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"...a great guide for the budding Wikipedia editor."
--JR Peck, Geek Book
