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How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of it »

Authors: Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates
ISBN-13: 9781593271763, ISBN-10: 159327176X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: No Starch Press San Francisco, CA
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Phoebe Ayers

Charles Matthews coaches adult and junior players and is the author of many articles on the game of Go.

Ben Yates is Program Coordinator for Engineering and Technology Teacher Education at The University of Central Missouri. Mr. Yates holds a master of industrial education from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California. He served twenty-five years in public schools as a technology education teacher, a department chair, a district coordinator, and an assistant principal. Mr. Yates is active in ITEA, where he served as the Region III Director for three years. He has presented numerous times at state, regional, and national conferences. Mr. Yates has been recognized by ITEA and the Technology Education Association of Missouri with the Teacher Excellence and the Program Excellence awards. He has also been recognized by ITEA as a Distinguished Technology Educator (DTE).

Book Synopsis

"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 editors.

Pt. I Content

Ch. 1 What's in Wikipedia? 3

Ch. 2 The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia 31

Ch. 3 Finding Wikipedia's Content 59

Ch. 4 Understanding and Evaluating an Article 99

Pt. II Editing

Ch. 5 Basic Editing 131

Ch. 6 Good Writing and Research 161

Ch. 7 Cleanup, Projects, and Processes 199

Ch. 8 Make and Mend Wikipedia's Web 231

Ch. 9 Images, Templates, and Special Characters 261

Ch. 10 The Life Cycle of an Article 287