[WikiEN-l] How to contact the author of a wiki page?

[FT2]

There are several ways to do this.

The easiest way to contact the main authors is to look at the tab marked
"history"  (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beta-binomial_distribution&action=history).
That will show who has edited the page, and by clicking on the links
marked "diff" next to various edits you can get an idea who wrote the basic
article or added significant material, and who did tidying up, spelling
fixes, etc. A click on the link for their "contribs" will show if thery are
still likely to be active editors. If they are - drop a note on their talk
pages.

But normally you don't need to contact the authors, nor is that the only
solution. If you ask your question on the article's talk page (click the
"discussion" tab) you will get help, also you can ask at the Wikipedia
Reference Desk for Math (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Mathematics ).

If all else fails, try the reference texts named in the article, Google, a
library, or a textbook.

FT2


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some questions regarding a wiki page, so I want to ask the
> authors of the page to get clarifications. Does anybody know how to
> find the authors and contact them, for example, for the following
> page?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-binomial_distribution
>