Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Content Chapter 1: What's in Wikipedia? Chapter 2: The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia Chapter 3: Finding Wikipedia's Content Chapter 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article Part II: Editing Chapter 5: Basic Editing Chapter 6: Good Writing and Research Chapter 7: Cleanup, Projects, and Processes Chapter 8: Make and Mend Wikipedia's Web Chapter 9: Images, Templates, and Special Characters Chapter 10: The Life Cycle of an Article Part III: Community Chapter 11: Becoming a Wikipedian Chapter 12: Community and Communication Chapter 13: Policy and Your Input Chapter 14: Disputes, Blocks, and Bans Part IV: Other Projects Chapter 15: 200 Languages and Counting Chapter 16: Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects Chapter 17: The Foundation and Project Coordination Appendix A: Reusing Wikimedia 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 Index

About the Author

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.