John Broughton

Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (eBook, PDF)

The Missing Manual

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 editPinpoint advice about which types of articles do and do not belong on WikipediaWays to learn from other editors and communicate with them via the site's talk pagesTricks for using templates and timesaving automated editing toolsRecommended procedures for fighting spam and vandalismGuidance on adding citations, links, and images to your articlesWikipedia 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 502
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780596520182
• Artikelnr.: 53052517

Autorenporträt

John Broughton has been a registered editor at Wikipedia since August 2005, with more than 15,000 edits by the time he wrote this book. His biggest Wikipedia endeavor was to build the Editor's index to Wikipedia (just type that in the "search" box at the left of any Wikipedia page). This index lists every important reference page on Wikipedia, as well as hundreds of off-Wikipedia Web pages with useful information and tools for Wikipedia editors. John's first experience with programming computers was in a 1969 National Science Foundation program. Since then, he's held various computer-related management positions in the headquarters of a U.S. Army Reserve division, worked in internal audit departments as a Certified Information Systems Auditor, and was the Campus Y2K Coordinator at U.C. Berkeley. A Certified Management Accountant, John has B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University; an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University; an M.S. in Education from the University of Southern California; and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgements
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
About This Book
The Very Basics
Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles
Chapter 1: Editing for the First Time
1.1 The Wikipedia Way of Editing
1.2 Practicing in the Sandbox
1.3 Starting, Previewing, and Saving Your Edit
1.4 Dealing with an Edit Conflict
1.5 Wiki Markup: From Edit Box to Screen
1.6 Editing Article Sections
1.7 Editing the Lead Section
1.8 Editing for Real
Chapter 2: Documenting Your Sources
2.1 Documentation Guidelines
2.2 Adding an External Link
2.3 Citing Sources
2.4 Creating Footnotes
2.5 Advanced Citation Techniques
Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Account and Personal Workspace
3.1 Why Register?
3.2 Picking a User Name
3.3 Registering
3.4 Setting Up Your User Page
3.5 Personal Subpages
Chapter 4: Creating a New Article
4.1 What Makes a Good Article
4.2 What Articles Don't Belong on Wikipedia
4.3 Tutorial: Creating a New Article
4.4 Ideas for New Articles
4.5 Resources for Writing Articles
Chapter 5: Who Did What: Page Histories and Reverting
5.1 Understanding Page Histories
5.2 Reverting Edits
5.3 Advanced Techniques
Chapter 6: Monitoring Changes
6.1 The User Contributions Page
6.2 Wikipedia's Standard Watchlist
6.3 Multiple Watchlists
6.4 Real-Time Monitoring Alternatives
Chapter 7: Dealing with Vandalism and Spam
7.1 Lines of Defense
7.2 Reverting Vandalism and Spam
7.3 Issuing Warnings
7.4 Requesting Assistance of Administrators
7.5 Don't Get into a Revert War
Collaborating with Other Editors
Chapter 8: Communicating with Your Fellow Editors
8.1 Identifying Yourself
8.2 Article Talk (Discussion) Pages
8.3 User Talk Page Postings
8.4 Communicating via Email and IRC
Chapter 9: WikiProjects and Other Group Efforts
9.1 WikiProjects
9.2 Collaborations
9.3 Less Formal Working Groups
Chapter 10: Resolving Content Disputes
10.1 Why Editors Disagree
10.2 Avoiding Content Disputes
10.3 Reviewing Content Changes: A General Plan of Action
10.4 Resolving Content Disputes Informally
10.5 Resolving Disputes with Assistance
Chapter 11: Handling Incivility and Personal Attacks
11.1 Enforcing Norms of Conduct
11.2 Dealing with Incivility and Personal Attacks
11.3 When You Get Irritated (or Worse)
Chapter 12: Lending Other Editors a Hand
12.1 Answering Questions
12.2 Showing Appreciation for Other Editors
12.3 Reviewing Articles and Images
12.4 Coaching Other Editors
12.5 Helping Resolve Disputes
12.6 For Experienced Editors
12.7 Choosing Where You Want to Help
Formatting and Illustrating Articles
Chapter 13: Article Sections and Tables of Contents
13.1 Getting Sections Right
13.2 Getting Headings Right
13.3 Improving the Table of Contents
Chapter 14: Creating Lists and Tables
14.1 Creating and Editing Lists
14.2 Editing and Creating Tables
Chapter 15: Adding Images
15.1 Uploading Images
15.2 Finding Images
15.3 Placing an Image in an Article
15.4 Questions or Problems with Images
15.5 Uploading a Non-free Image
Building a Stronger Encyclopedia
Chapter 16: Getting Readers to the Right Article: Naming, Redirects, and Disambiguation
16.1 Naming and Renaming
16.2 For Old Names and Bad Spellers: Redirects
16.3 For Multiple Meanings: Disambiguation
Chapter 17: Categorizing Articles
17.1 Fundamentals of Categorization
17.2 Category Links in Articles
17.3 Category Pages
17.4 Building Out Categories
17.5 Discussing Categories
17.6 Categories, Lists, and Navigation Templates
Chapter 18: Better Articles: A Systematic Approach
18.1 Avoid Surprises
18.2 Don't Suppress or Separate Controversy
18.3 Reorganize and Edit Existing Content
18.4 Don't Take Article Scope as a Given
18.5 Improve the Citation of Sources
18.6 Build the Web
18.7 Look for Guidance and Examples
18.8 Add Sourced Content
18.9 Remove Cruft and Duplication
18.10 Get the Wording Right
18.11 Make the Article Look Appealing
Chapter 19: Deleting Existing Articles
19.1 Responding to Problem Articles
19.2 Alternatives to Deletion
19.3 Three Ways to Delete an Article
19.4 After an Article is Deleted
Customizing Wikipedia
Chapter 20: Customizing with Preferences
20.1 User Profile
20.2 Skin
20.3 Math
20.4 Files
20.5 Date and Time
20.6 Editing
20.7 Recent Changes
20.8 Watchlist
20.9 Search
20.10 Misc
20.11 Gadgets
Chapter 21: Easier Editing with JavaScript
21.1 Setting Up Your Browser
21.2 Adding and Deleting Scripts
21.3 Fixing Problems
21.4 Resources
Appendixes
A Tour of the Wikipedia Page
The Six Upper-Right Links
The Top Tabs
Left Boxes and Links
Links in the Body of the Page
Bottom Links
Additional Features in Edit Mode
Additional Options on User Pages
Keyboard Shortcuts
Reader's Guide to Wikipedia
Some Basics
What Wikipedia is Not
How Good is Wikipedia?
Navigating Within Wikipedia
Images
You Can Help
Learning More
Information Pages
Directories and Indexes
Places to Ask Questions
Coaching and Classes
Wikipedia News and Gossip
Colophon

Rezensionen

"Hier finden Leser das, was sie benötigen, wenn sie selbst Beiträge schreiben wollen. Vom Einsteiger bis zum erfahrenen Artikelautor reicht die Palette der potenziellen Käufer, denn Broughton bietet außer einführenden Kapiteln solche, die die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Autoren, das Formatieren und Aufteilen von Artikeln oder das Anpassen der Benutzerschnittstelle betreffen." -- iX, Januar 2009