Shortcuts H:TMMI H:TMM/I Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is a how-to guide that explains the process of contributing to the English Wikipedia, both for novice...
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You can edit Wikipedia articles to your heart's content—for the rest of your life even—without ever registering with Wikipedia. But the sooner you register...
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Anyone can edit Wikipedia—including you! That's right! There's no fee, and you don't have to register. You don't even have to have an email account (but...
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Back in high school English, you probably learned how to add footnotes and endnotes to essays and papers. If you didn't add information about your sources...
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As a Wikipedia editor, you need to know how to use the pages where editors interact and collaborate with each other. Even if you want to focus mostly on...
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Wikipedia needs more articles. Yet of the hundreds that are created every day, about half end up being deleted or otherwise removed. Most of the deletions...
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Most of this book is aimed at folks who want to edit Wikipedia articles and become more active in the Wikipedia community. But this appendix is all about...
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Wikipedia has two features to make readers' lives easier—sections and tables of contents. Without these, most Wikipedia articles would be a mass of text...
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Wikipedia's core is its articles' content. With so many editors collaborating on Wikipedia, disagreements over content are inevitable. Most of the time...
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One of the most striking features of Wikipedia articles is that most articles include at least one image. Editors have added those images, one by one,...
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Most of the first 17 chapters of this book offered you an assortment of how-to advice on improving Wikipedia articles. Now it's time to tie all that advice...
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With more than 6 million articles on the English Wikipedia, how do you get to the one you want? For example, when a reader types "mercury" into the search...
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You can customize Wikipedia in ways that make your editing easier with user scripts, which are written in JavaScript code. As you've seen in this book...
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Lists and tables are two different ways to format multiple, similar items on a page. Lists and HTML tables go back to Wikipedia's early days. The current...
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When you look at the bottom of a Wikipedia article, you see category links. For example, the article Coat of arms of Copenhagen has the category links...
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What you see in the Wikipedia window in front of you isn't fixed in concrete. Wikipedia has a surprising number of ways that you can modify its appearance...
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Although vandalism and spam are constant aggravations, the ongoing efforts of thousands of editors—like you—do a surprisingly good job of minimizing these...
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In an ideal world, Wikipedia editors would discuss only content and would post only well reasoned, informative comments. They would assume, unless faced...
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Anyone can edit Wikipedia. Most of the time that's a good thing—millions of people have made positive contributions to the largest group-writing effort...
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After you edit a Wikipedia article, other editors may, in turn, change the changes you've made. As one of the notes at the bottom of the standard edit...
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