How Wikipedia works : and how you can be a part of it

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Introduction

Part I: Content

What's in Wikipedia?

The world gets a free encyclopedia

Finding Wikipedia's content

Understanding and evaluating an article

Part II: Editing

Basic editing

Good writing and research

Cleanup, projects, and processes

Make and mend Wikipedia's web

image, templates, and special characters

The life cycle of an article

Part III: Community

Becoming a Wikipedian

Community and communication

Policy and your input

Dispute, blocks, and bans

Part IV: Other projects

200 languages and counting

Wikimedia commons and other sister projects

The foundation and project coordination

Appendix A: Reusing Wikipedia content

Appendix B: Wikipedia for teachers

Appendix C: Edit summaries jargon

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix E: History (list of Wikipedia pages referenced in this work)

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