User:Phoebe/book-outline


 * 1) Introduction, quick start guide
 * 2) What's in Wikipedia? -- Content policies and what you can expect to find
 * 3) History and background: Encyclopedias, free software, wikis and Wikipedia
 * 4) Navigating, searching and browsing
 * 5) Basic editing
 * A walkthrough with code examples and expected results in the style of many programming books would be a good idea here. Essentially, what this entails is creating a user subpage by copying some unwikified text and gradually making it look like a real article. MER-C 13:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Manual of Style, good writing and research
 * 2) Cleaning up, processes, and things to do
 * 3) Working with articles
 * 4) Advanced Syntax
 * 5) life cycle of an article
 * 6) Becoming a Wikipedian
 * 7) Communities and communication
 * 8) Policies
 * 9) Dispute resolution and coming to consensus
 * 10) 200 languages and counting...
 * 11) Sister projects: Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons and more
 * 12) Foundation and Meta

Featured content could probably do with its own chapter. MER-C 13:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

There are some 250+ languages with a Wikipedia and some 50 still need their MediaWiki localisation. The differences between the projects are sometimes quite stark. The success stories show that a Wikipedia can become significantly important for major and minor languages. Within the projects there is a long tail where people do care but do not make their projects a success. GerardM (talk) 14:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Any specific examples that come to mind? -- phoebe/ (talk) 00:48, 18 December 2007 (UTC)