“Wikipedia: The Missing Manual” freely available on Wikipedia
January 28th, 2009I’m delighted to tell you that John Broughton’s book “Wikipedia: The Missing Manual” has been made available for free on the English language Wikipedia. O’Reilly Media announced this the other day. This is terrific news and will not only enable Wikipedia users around the world to read John’s book but also to edit it.
John first contributed to Wikipedia in August 2005 and his biggest accomplishment so far was the writing of the Editor’s index to Wikipedia, a comprehensive list of reference pages and links to useful information and tools for Wikipedia editors.
“Wikipedia: The Missing Manual” teaches new users how to contribute to Wikipedia and gives practical advice on how to collaborate with others to improve the free encyclopedia’s content. The book has first been published at O’Reilly’s in January 2008 and can now be found on Wikipedia’s help pages.
Please join me in thanking John for this great gift!
Frank Schulenburg
Head of Public Outreach
January 29th, 2009 at 00:35
Cool, but all included images were uploaded to Wikipedia and not Commons…
January 30th, 2009 at 07:02
Cool, but in terms of international outreach, would not it be a good idea to do a blog to talk of all the other initiatives of “missing manuals” in other languages than English ?
February 1st, 2009 at 02:09
Very good!
(But I think the better place to it is the Wikibooks project instead of Wikipedia…)
February 10th, 2009 at 05:26
[[User:Kaurjmeb]] wrote a manual 維基百科攻略 (ISBN: 9789867075062) in Chinese a few years back.
February 12th, 2009 at 14:06
[[User:Kaurjmeb|KJ]] has written a Wikipedia manual in Chinese a couple of years back.
It is titled 維基百科攻略 (Strategies for Using Wikipedia).