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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 edit
Pinpoint advice about which types of articles do and do not belong on Wikipedia
Ways to learn from other editors and communicate with them via the site's talk pages
Tricks for using templates and timesaving automated editing tools
Recommended procedures for fighting spam and vandalism
Guidance on adding citations, links, and images to your articles

Wikipedia 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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Title Wikipedia: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
Author John Broughton
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 501
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher O'Reilly Media, Beijing
Date 2008-03-04
Features Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780596515164 / 0596515162
Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
Dimensions 9.14 x 7.06 x 1 in (23.22 x 17.93 x 2.54 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Wikis (Computer science), User-generated content
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008275632
Dewey Decimal Code 006.76

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New York Review of Books, 03/20/2008, Page 6

About the author

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.

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