How Wikipedia works: and how you can be a part of it

Description

Wikipedia is made up of people just like you: students, professors, and everyday experts and fans. With about 10,000 articles added to Wikipedia each week, there are plenty of opportunities to join this global community. How Wikipedia Works explains how you can make the Web's go-to source for information even better. You'll learn the skills required to use and contribute to the world's largest reference work-like what constitutes good writing and research and how to work with images and templates. Instead of wondering where to begin, the question will be "How far will you go?" Content: Introduction -- Part I: Content -- What's in Wikipedia? -- The world gets a free encyclopedia -- Finding Wikipedia's content -- Understanding and evaluating an article -- Part II: Editing -- Basic editing -- Good writing and research -- Cleanup, projects, and processes -- Make and mend Wikipedia's web -- image, templates, and special characters -- The life cycle of an article -- Part III: Community -- Becoming a Wikipedian -- Community and communication -- Policy and your input -- Dispute, blocks, and bans -- Part IV: Other projects -- 200 languages and counting -- Wikimedia commons and other sister projects -- The foundation and project coordination -- Appendix A: Reusing Wikipedia content -- Appendix B: Wikipedia for teachers -- Appendix C: Edit summaries jargon -- Appendix D: Glossary -- Appendix E: History (list of Wikipedia pages referenced in this work) -- GNU free documentation license.