[Air-L] How Wikipedia Works
Barry Wellman
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Fri Sep 26 07:16:26 PDT 2008
Is a good first guide to how to use Wikipedia, showing how to start, edit,
merge, etc. articles.
By Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, & Ben Yates.
No Starch Press (SF)
It's endorsed by WikiPope, Jimbo Wales.
It also has a inside cover blurb by me: "Anyone can edit, but to make your
edits stick, you need to know what you're doing."
However, my favorite line is from a blurb by Wiki inventor Ward
Cunningham, "To write every day is good advice, but to publish every day
is even better."
I'm gonna put that in my writing book, if I ever get around to writing
it;-)
Barry Wellman
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