Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works
I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We published HWW in 2008, and while many of the chapters hold up today, others (especially those dealing with specific templates, etc) do not.
In addition, there's a lot of additional new material to cover. For instance: * When the VisualEditor is stable, there should be a chapter about using the VE, followed up with more advanced chapters about wikitext * The education program and GLAM projects were just getting going when we published, and it would be nice to have a full chapter about these (since in my experience many of the readers of the book have been educators) * I'd love to see full chapters about each of the sister projects; I didn't have the space in the printed book or the expertise to write these originally, but covering all of Wikimedia was always part of my ideal book.
Also, the figures are not in Wikibooks. While I will work on uploading the originals (it will be slow), I don't have all of them in a good format, and most of the screenshot-type figures need to be redone anyway. I'd love help with this.
Of course, one of my great joys about the printed book was that it was so nicely produced; the publisher, No Starch Press, did a fantastic job of layout and the book itself is quite high-quality. For those who want that, the print book is still available for purchase; but making the Wikibooks text pretty should also be a goal (the current text was cut & pasted, so there's a lot of formatting that needs to be cleaned up).
I know this has been a long time coming; that's my fault! This has been a side project for us for many years, and I was happy to recently find some time to work on it again. It's my hope that the book is still useful, and that we can make it more useful still for the future. (There's also a new website for the book at http://howwikipediaworks.net).
best, phoebe
This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in.
A.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works
I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We published HWW in 2008, and while many of the chapters hold up today, others (especially those dealing with specific templates, etc) do not.
In addition, there's a lot of additional new material to cover. For instance:
- When the VisualEditor is stable, there should be a chapter about using
the VE, followed up with more advanced chapters about wikitext
- The education program and GLAM projects were just getting going when we
published, and it would be nice to have a full chapter about these (since in my experience many of the readers of the book have been educators)
- I'd love to see full chapters about each of the sister projects; I didn't
have the space in the printed book or the expertise to write these originally, but covering all of Wikimedia was always part of my ideal book.
Also, the figures are not in Wikibooks. While I will work on uploading the originals (it will be slow), I don't have all of them in a good format, and most of the screenshot-type figures need to be redone anyway. I'd love help with this.
Of course, one of my great joys about the printed book was that it was so nicely produced; the publisher, No Starch Press, did a fantastic job of layout and the book itself is quite high-quality. For those who want that, the print book is still available for purchase; but making the Wikibooks text pretty should also be a goal (the current text was cut & pasted, so there's a lot of formatting that needs to be cleaned up).
I know this has been a long time coming; that's my fault! This has been a side project for us for many years, and I was happy to recently find some time to work on it again. It's my hope that the book is still useful, and that we can make it more useful still for the future. (There's also a new website for the book at http://howwikipediaworks.net).
best, phoebe
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Thank you Phoebe and Charles! I started adding and wikifying the tables of contents.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in.
A.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works
I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We published HWW in 2008, and while many of the chapters hold up today, others (especially those dealing with specific templates, etc) do not.
In addition, there's a lot of additional new material to cover. For instance:
- When the VisualEditor is stable, there should be a chapter about using
the VE, followed up with more advanced chapters about wikitext
- The education program and GLAM projects were just getting going when we
published, and it would be nice to have a full chapter about these (since in my experience many of the readers of the book have been educators)
- I'd love to see full chapters about each of the sister projects; I didn't
have the space in the printed book or the expertise to write these originally, but covering all of Wikimedia was always part of my ideal book.
Also, the figures are not in Wikibooks. While I will work on uploading the originals (it will be slow), I don't have all of them in a good format, and most of the screenshot-type figures need to be redone anyway. I'd love help with this.
Of course, one of my great joys about the printed book was that it was so nicely produced; the publisher, No Starch Press, did a fantastic job of layout and the book itself is quite high-quality. For those who want that, the print book is still available for purchase; but making the Wikibooks text pretty should also be a goal (the current text was cut & pasted, so there's a lot of formatting that needs to be cleaned up).
I know this has been a long time coming; that's my fault! This has been a side project for us for many years, and I was happy to recently find some time to work on it again. It's my hope that the book is still useful, and that we can make it more useful still for the future. (There's also a new website for the book at http://howwikipediaworks.net).
best, phoebe
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This also fits into the Wikisource scope; you could use the PDF with the ProofreadPage http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Proofreadsystem. In contrast to the Wikibooks version, this would match the original published version of the book.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Phoebe and Charles! I started adding and wikifying the tables of contents.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in.
A.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the
text of
our book "How Wikipedia Works", and the text is now in Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works
I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the
book. We
published HWW in 2008, and while many of the chapters hold up today,
others
(especially those dealing with specific templates, etc) do not.
In addition, there's a lot of additional new material to cover. For instance:
- When the VisualEditor is stable, there should be a chapter about using
the VE, followed up with more advanced chapters about wikitext
- The education program and GLAM projects were just getting going when
we
published, and it would be nice to have a full chapter about these
(since
in my experience many of the readers of the book have been educators)
- I'd love to see full chapters about each of the sister projects; I
didn't
have the space in the printed book or the expertise to write these originally, but covering all of Wikimedia was always part of my ideal
book.
Also, the figures are not in Wikibooks. While I will work on uploading
the
originals (it will be slow), I don't have all of them in a good format,
and
most of the screenshot-type figures need to be redone anyway. I'd love
help
with this.
Of course, one of my great joys about the printed book was that it was
so
nicely produced; the publisher, No Starch Press, did a fantastic job of layout and the book itself is quite high-quality. For those who want
that,
the print book is still available for purchase; but making the Wikibooks text pretty should also be a goal (the current text was cut & pasted, so there's a lot of formatting that needs to be cleaned up).
I know this has been a long time coming; that's my fault! This has been
a
side project for us for many years, and I was happy to recently find
some
time to work on it again. It's my hope that the book is still useful,
and
that we can make it more useful still for the future. (There's also a
new
website for the book at http://howwikipediaworks.net).
best, phoebe
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