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“To write every day is good advice, but, to publish every day is even better. Thisbook shows how your casual scholarship and the Wikipedia community worktogether so that you can be read tomorrow.”—Ward Cunningham, creator o the wiki“This wonderul book resolves Wikipedia’s paradox: Anyone can edit it, but tomake your edits stick, you need to know what you are doing. Editing Wikipediameans navigating a mineeld o implicit norms, tacit knowledge, secret lore, sug-gested policies and enorceable regulations.”—Barry Wellman, director o Netlab, University o Toronto“As Wikipedia has grown, its processes, policies, systems, and tools have becomeinscrutable to many existing and would-be editors.
How Wikipedia Works
providesan accessible window onto these processes and thoughtul tour through the mazeo Wikipedia policy pages. It’s the thoughtul, comprehensive, and reely licensedmanual that I’ve been waiting years or. Wikipedia would be much improved i every Wikipedia editor, new and old, were given a copy.”—Benjamin Mako-Hill, ree sotware activist, hacker, and scholar
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