Hello all,
I have some exciting news! I have written a short article on Wikipedia that is to be published in "The Canadian Writer's Guide 13th Edition", a reference for Canadian writers. The publisher's page is at http://www.canauthors.org/pubs.html, which describes the 12th edition. The book should be in print by the end of September 2002.
The full text of the article is also available on my web site at http://jeays.net/files/wikipedia.htm. My angle was to introduce Wikipedia as a way of practicing one's writing skills while, as a happy side-effect, creating encyclopedia articles. I tried to capture the flavour of Wikipedia (including the NPOV, don't worry...) in 1100 words (not easy!).
As with any Internet-related article there are a couple of things that have changed over time (like the URL...except www.wikipedia.com still works, and Larry Sanger's involvement). This piece was written in early 2002 and the book publishing process seems to take substantially longer than the wiki process :)
Regards,
Mark Jeays ([[user:Dze27]])
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dze27@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello all,
I have some exciting news! I have written a short article on Wikipedia that is to be published in "The Canadian Writer's Guide 13th Edition", a reference for Canadian writers. The publisher's page is at http://www.canauthors.org/pubs.html, which describes the 12th edition. The book should be in print by the end of September 2002.
The full text of the article is also available on my web site at http://jeays.net/files/wikipedia.htm. My angle was to introduce Wikipedia as a way of practicing one's writing skills while, as a happy side-effect, creating encyclopedia articles. I tried to capture the flavour of Wikipedia (including the NPOV, don't worry...) in 1100 words (not easy!).
Interesting article, but I would have my concerns about calling it "stress-free" writing.
If it works the project could be overrun by Canadians. Fantastic!
Eclecticology
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Interesting article, but I would have my concerns about calling it "stress-free" writing.
I'm an occasional contributor so Wikipedia has never stressed me out personally. I know some of the regulars get a bit stressed but that's due to an obvious devotion to the project.
If it works the project could be overrun by Canadians. Fantastic!
We shall see... (although I doubt that... if a posting on Slashdot didn't overrun Wikipedia I don't know what would)
Cheers,
Mark
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Nice work, Mark! I read the article; I think it's a pretty good general introduction to the project. And, since you've put it under the GFDL,I'm going to add it to meta.wikipedia.com. :)
Stephen G.
--- dze27@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello all,
I have some exciting news! I have written a short article on Wikipedia that is to be published in "The Canadian Writer's Guide 13th Edition", a reference for Canadian writers. The publisher's page is at http://www.canauthors.org/pubs.html, which describes the 12th edition. The book should be in print by the end of September 2002.
The full text of the article is also available on my web site at http://jeays.net/files/wikipedia.htm. My angle was to introduce Wikipedia as a way of practicing one's writing skills while, as a happy side-effect, creating encyclopedia articles. I tried to capture the flavour of Wikipedia (including the NPOV, don't worry...) in 1100 words (not easy!).
As with any Internet-related article there are a couple of things that have changed over time (like the URL...except www.wikipedia.com still works, and Larry Sanger's involvement). This piece was written in early 2002 and the book publishing process seems to take substantially longer than the wiki process :)
Regards,
Mark Jeays ([[user:Dze27]])
__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
Stephen Gilbert wrote:
Nice work, Mark! I read the article; I think it's a pretty good general introduction to the project. And, since you've put it under the GFDL,I'm going to add it to meta.wikipedia.com. :)
Very nice! I think we should add a link under one of the FAQs "What is Wikipedia?" and perhaps in "Answers to our Critics" as well.
Thanks for the excellent PR!
regards, Mike Irwin
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