[WikiEN-l] Forthcoming book about Wikipedia, "How Wikipedia Works" -- feedback wanted

[Gary Kirk]

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It's one of those "It'll never work!" ideas - like Wikipedia itself - but of
course, it does.
Congratulations.

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On 04/12/2007, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All,
> I'm pleased to announce that four Wikipedians -- myself (user:phoebe),
> Charles Matthews (user:Charles Matthews), Ben Yates (user:Tlogmer) and
> SJ Klein (user:sj) -- are writing a book about using and understanding
> Wikipedia, tentatively titled "How Wikipedia Works". It will be
> published by [[No Starch Press]] in early 2008.
>
> This guide will be focused on helping readers understand Wikipedia and
> helping new editors contribute. We hope to include enough detail to
> make it a useful reference for current contributors as well. (Note
> that this is a different project from the O'Reilly book that was
> discussed earlier on the lists).
>
> We welcome community feedback and ideas, and hope to make this a truly
> community-based work. There is a project page here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Phoebe/book
> We'll add detail there over the coming weeks, and have asked for
> feedback in some specific areas. Please do contribute and send us your
> thoughts and ideas.
>
> Some details:
>
> * The book will be licensed under the GFDL and an online version will
> be available. (No Starch has been a great partner in this and has been
> very supportive of open licensing). Where the book reprints on-wiki
> documentation, the authors of that documentation will be credited.
> * We're primarily focusing on the English Wikipedia, but there will be
> brief sections about the sister projects and Wikipedias in other
> languages, so we definitely welcome feedback and ideas from those
> communities as well.
> * A portion of the authors' proceeds will be donated to the Wikimedia
> Foundation.
>
> If you have any questions, concerns or ideas, please let me or one of
> the other authors know. I'll be updating the project page with
> progress information as we get closer to publication.
>
> best,
> Phoebe Ayers
> phoebe.ayers at gmail.com
>
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-- 
Gary Kirk