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The first printing of the first edition of the book Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is now (January 25, 2009) also a set of wiki pages in the Help: namespace of Wikipedia. The content has been released by the publisher, O'Reilly Media/Pogue Press, and by the author, John Broughton, under the standard Wikipedia free content license.
We believe strongly in the mission of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation - to collect and develop knowledge under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. That mission is carried out by the millions of people who have or will edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects; this book can make them better and more productive editors, as well as introducing potential editors to the matter of how to be a good editor.
Our hope is that the Wikipedia community will take ownership of these pages, updating the material to reflect changes to Wikipedia since the first printing of the book was done in January 2008, correcting the inevitable errors that appeared in that print version, and improving the content in whatever ways Wikipedia editors think will make it more valuable to other editors and to potential editors.
Q: Wikipedia already has hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation. Why this book? (Or: Why update and improve these pages when Wikipedia already has good documentation?)
Q: Why should I help improve this version of the book when O'Reilly/Pogue Press will take the work that I do, for the next edition of the book, without paying or crediting me?
Q: What if I want to significantly change this version of the book - for example, by adding a chapter, or splitting a chapter?
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The following is from the "Missing Credits" section of the first printing of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (January 2008, ISBN 0596515162):
The following is from the "Colophon" section:
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The first printing of the first edition of the book Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is now (January 25, 2009) also a set of wiki pages in the Help: namespace of Wikipedia. The content has been released by the publisher, O'Reilly Media/Pogue Press, and by the author, John Broughton, under the standard Wikipedia free content license.
We believe strongly in the mission of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation - to collect and develop knowledge under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. That mission is carried out by the millions of people who have or will edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects; this book can make them better and more productive editors, as well as introducing potential editors to the matter of how to be a good editor.
Our hope is that the Wikipedia community will take ownership of these pages, updating the material to reflect changes to Wikipedia since the first printing of the book was done in January 2008, correcting the inevitable errors that appeared in that print version, and improving the content in whatever ways Wikipedia editors think will make it more valuable to other editors and to potential editors.
Q: Wikipedia already has hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation. Why this book? (Or: Why update and improve these pages when Wikipedia already has good documentation?)
Q: Why should I help improve this version of the book when O'Reilly/Pogue Press will take the work that I do, for the next edition of the book, without paying or crediting me?
Q: What if I want to significantly change this version of the book - for example, by adding a chapter, or splitting a chapter?
Q: How do I get consensus to make a significant change to this version of this very book?
The following is from the "Missing Credits" section of the first printing of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (January 2008, ISBN 0596515162):
The following is from the "Colophon" section: