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Index
Wikipedia Reader’s Guide: The Missing Manual
Preface
About the Author
Safari® Enabled
Acknowledgements
1. Reader’s Guide to Wikipedia
Some Basics
How Good is Wikipedia?
Navigating Within Wikipedia
Searching Wikipedia
Navigating from the Main Page
Categories
Portals
The A-Z index
Other entry points
Categories
Other Ways of Navigating
Random article
What links here
Six degrees of Wikipedia
Wikipedia on the Go
Mobile Access
Wikipedia on a Mobile Hard Drive
What Wikipedia is Not
Wikipedia’s Sister Projects
Policy: What Wikipedia is Not
Wikipedia in Other Languages
You Can Help
Articles with Problems
Missing Information
Missing Articles
2. Editing for the First Time
The Wikipedia Way of Editing
Practicing in the Sandbox
Starting, Previewing, and Saving Your Edit
Adding Text
Previewing
Saving
Wiki Markup: From Edit Box to Screen
Types of Markup
How to Create Internal Links
Understanding and Using Templates
Editing Article Sections
Editing One Section
Editing the Lead Section
Editing for Real
Wordsmithing Versus Adding Information
A Few Words about Content
Selecting a Random Page
Working on a Known Problem
Index
Copyright
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