Conversations with John Broughton Author of Wikipedia: Missing Manual What made you write? This book is In November 2006 I began working on an index for editors of Wikipedia? one page that has links to all policies, guidelines, how-to pages, reference pages, tools, and other things that editors imagined might want to read. The more I worked on the index, the more I discover the complexity of editing Wikipedia. I also realized, given how incredibly complex Wikipedia, the reader why there hadn t is not a book about editing Wikipedia information. It is why your book in particular? It is important now Wikipedia is very popular as a source. What is most important single thing your book will be done after buying your book? Readers will be able to find certain things on Wikipedia that they mainly? re interested in editing, and other editors with similar interests. What do you think is on the horizon for your readers.? I think as more and more adults are computer-immersed, Wikipedia will become more important, and the idea of editing would be intimidating to continue to increase the percentage of people One day maybe talking about the experience of recent Wikipedia editing may be almost as common as talking about the weather or last traffic or sports. a "stock photo" site central to all language versions of Wikipedia? And that is only for English-language Wikipedia - the other language versions of 250 + non-British joint more than three times the size of English Wikipedia. Finally, I still felt surprising that Wikipedia and Commons and a group of sister projects (Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, and Wikibooks), in all languages around the world, all of which are run by non-profit foundation that has only a handful of employees and budget of only a few million dollars per annum exclusive. Amazon: VIP Tips and Tricks: 1). You can dive right in and start editing without setting Simple account (ie, get a user name. However, there are advantages to having a user name -, privacy is the ability to create new, and personal articles, user pages to name a few. Rises 2. 'Sometimes it is necessary to edit the entire article at once - for example, if you move back to the parts around, or move text from one section to another. But they are usually the exception, in general, better than clicking "edit this page" tab, click "edit" link to the section you want to edit. If you plan to edit two or three parts of the article, you can efficiently do these as separate edits of individual sections. Doing so helps you (previewing Your edit is much easier), helps other editors (they can see what part you are editing), and minimize the edit conflicts between you and other editors. The reason for waiting a bit is to see whether other, more experienced editor can reverse the vandalizing edit, placing back to text articles are overwritten by the vandalism. If you accidentally add something to a page that you later decide not to be there - a home address, a complaint about your employer, or other personal information - you need to do more than just edit the page again and remove information. Anyone visiting Wikipedia can still read the previous version of the page, the version to which the information is still there, simply by going to the history page and open that prior versions of the article. - 5. It is easy to add some information to Wikipedia, but if you want information that to remain, be there in one day or one month or a year, it is very important that you cite the source of that information. If s from offline sources such as books?, Go to the article talk page, start a new section (use the tab "+" ), and type the text plus information about the source (title, author, publication date, page number, etc.) and add comments that you would appreciate another editor adding the information to the article. One, they were large pieces of cut-and-paste the text into the article , which is a copyright violation, Two, they use information from what Wikipedia calls "non-reliable" source: discussion boards, blogs from someone who is not a recognized expert on the topic of Wikipedia articles, or self-published book. (For more information information about what Wikipedia considers reliable source, type "WP: RS" in the search box. Left to). 7 Since January 2008, Wikipedia has a new resource for intermediate and advanced editors (and yet one more place novice editors can diguwearing as a jumping-off place to find information) - Editor Index to the Wikipedia encyclopedia. 8. as a reader you may not find answers to your questions in Wikipedia articles because they are not really to the question. Remember that you? Back to editing Wikipedia in English, not American Wikipedia. When the British or Aussies or even Canadians write or interpret written information differently than Americans, then you must carefully design the information in an article so that no one anywhere in the world they are from - confused. Is The Wikimedia Commons is "stock photo" site for Wikipedias in all languages, but where you have to upload a picture if you have one that you want to add to a Wikipedia article (or think others might find useful).