How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It

Phoebe Ayers; Charles Matthews; Ben Yates

ISBN 10: 159327176X / ISBN 13: 9781593271763

Verlag: No Starch Press, 2008

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 159327176X-3-32923602

Inhaltsangabe:

Wikipedia operates on the basic principle that information should be publicly available and free of charge. Its editorial model is populist and counter-intuitive, allowing anyone to edit its two-million English-language encyclopedia entries. A volunteer organization with a tiny staff, Wikipedia has broken into the world's top ten online sites, and is still growing steadily in content, quality, and traffic.

Wikipedia is one of the world's most trafficked websites, read by hundreds of millions of people in over 200 languages, with coverage of politics, science, the arts, technology, geography, pop culture, history, and more. Anyone can add a new article, or edit existing content, but Wikipedia is poorly understood and can be daunting to new contributors. How Wikipedia Works explains how this vast, collaborative site functions, condensing thousands of hyperlinks of documentation into an easy to use handbook for current or aspiring contributors. It covers the basics―such as navigating, searching, and editing―and dives deeply into difficult topics like advanced syntax, editor etiquette, and administrative policies and processes. The veteran Wikipedians behind this book share the secrets and profound success of this incredible, diverse, and unique community.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Phoebe Ayers (user:phoebe) is a science and engineering reference librarian at the University of California, Davis. She has been involved with Wikipedia since 2003 and is an organizer of the Wikimania conferences.

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Titel: How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a ...
Verlag: No Starch Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good