It's the season for books about Wikipedia!
I am very pleased to announce that "How Wikipedia Works", by myself (Phoebe Ayers), Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates has now been published by No Starch Press.
You can view a table of contents and find more information here: http://nostarch.com/wikipedia.htm
We cover the background of Wikipedia and the motivations and core values behind the project, how to edit existing articles and develop new ones, policies and guidelines for content and editing, how the editing community works, and how to get involved in the community.
Although we focus on the English-language Wikipedia, we also cover the wider world of other language Wikipedias, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikipedia's sister projects. We hope the book will be useful both as a reference for current contributors and as a comprehensive introduction to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects for newbies.
The book is licensed under the GFDL, and an online version will be forthcoming shortly. Any printed copies purchased will help support traditional publishers using free licenses successfully, and 5% of the authors' royalties will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation.
We very much look forward to the community's feedback! For now, you can leave comments on the wiki here: http://wiki.phoebeayers.info or email or leave a talk page message for any of us.
Many thanks to everyone who helped us out with this, particularly the folks at No Starch press who were very supportive of developing a free-content work; Benjamin Mako Hill, who provided technical and licensing support; and SJ Klein, who helped develop the book.
best, Phoebe ([[en:user:phoebe]])
phoebe ayers wrote:
It's the season for books about Wikipedia!
I am very pleased to announce that "How Wikipedia Works", by myself (Phoebe Ayers), Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates has now been published by No Starch Press.
We got our copies from Amazon today. Woo hoo! Congratulations to Phoebe, Charles and Ben; it looks great :-)
I would imagine it will rival Agatha Christie's great works , for back stabbing, lies and deceit, but probably won't have the mass appeal though - pity.
Giano
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
phoebe ayers wrote:
It's the season for books about Wikipedia!
I am very pleased to announce that "How Wikipedia Works", by myself (Phoebe Ayers), Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates has now been published by No Starch Press.
We got our copies from Amazon today. Woo hoo! Congratulations to Phoebe, Charles and Ben; it looks great :-)
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On the contrary! I expect our gripping tale of wikimystery will appeal to all. Was it: arsenic in the AfDs? Perhaps a candlestick over the head in the community portal? Or quite possibly the butler did it ... everyone thought he was just a simple wikignome; little did they know an RfA would prove his downfall.
Please look for the GFDL-licensed mass-market followups, "Murder on the Wiki Express" and "Editing on the Nile." And a sequel, "Jimbo Investigates", is in the works...
-- phoebe
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Giacomo M-Z solebaciato@googlemail.com wrote:
I would imagine it will rival Agatha Christie's great works , for back stabbing, lies and deceit, but probably won't have the mass appeal though - pity.
Giano
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
phoebe ayers wrote:
It's the season for books about Wikipedia!
I am very pleased to announce that "How Wikipedia Works", by myself (Phoebe Ayers), Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates has now been published by No Starch Press.
We got our copies from Amazon today. Woo hoo! Congratulations to Phoebe, Charles and Ben; it looks great :-)
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.comwrote:
On the contrary! I expect our gripping tale of wikimystery will appeal to all. Was it: arsenic in the AfDs? Perhaps a candlestick over the head in the community portal? Or quite possibly the butler did it ... everyone thought he was just a simple wikignome; little did they know an RfA would prove his downfall.
Please look for the GFDL-licensed mass-market followups, "Murder on the Wiki Express" and "Editing on the Nile." And a sequel, "Jimbo Investigates", is in the works...
This could be fun, Wikipedia themed fractured titles... How about:
"All Quiet on the Recent Changes Front" "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Template Coding (But Were Afraid to Ask)" "I Jimbo" "The Admin, the Vandal, and the AutoWikiBrowser" "The Evil that Vandals do"
Oh, I could go on and on... :-)
I'm going to go make "All Quiet on the Recent Changes Front" a comedy musical now.
X!
On Sep 22, 2008, at 2:40 PM [Sep 22, 2008 ], Elias Friedman wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.comwrote:
On the contrary! I expect our gripping tale of wikimystery will appeal to all. Was it: arsenic in the AfDs? Perhaps a candlestick over the head in the community portal? Or quite possibly the butler did it ... everyone thought he was just a simple wikignome; little did they know an RfA would prove his downfall.
Please look for the GFDL-licensed mass-market followups, "Murder on the Wiki Express" and "Editing on the Nile." And a sequel, "Jimbo Investigates", is in the works...
This could be fun, Wikipedia themed fractured titles... How about:
"All Quiet on the Recent Changes Front" "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Template Coding (But Were Afraid to Ask)" "I Jimbo" "The Admin, the Vandal, and the AutoWikiBrowser" "The Evil that Vandals do"
Oh, I could go on and on... :-)
Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P elipongo@gmail.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elipongo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 9/22/08, Elias Friedman elipongo@gmail.com wrote:
This could be fun, Wikipedia themed fractured titles...
For Whom the Trolls Bawl...
Congrats to Phoebe, Ben and Charles - it looks suitably fantastic. :-)
Wikilove, Cormac
2008/9/19 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com:
It's the season for books about Wikipedia!
Fantastic news, and kudos for making it available under the GFDL. Congratulations. :-)
Great job! I would love to write a book. Great idea with the licensing too!
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2008/9/19 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com:
It's the season for books about Wikipedia!
Fantastic news, and kudos for making it available under the GFDL. Congratulations. :-) -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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