[FM Discuss] Wikipedia Manual

[Brianna Laugher]

Hi,

I am a bit surprised that the manual was created as 'Wikipedia' rather
than 'MediaWiki', as I thought from the previous thread that
'MediaWiki' was what would be created.

There are two very comprehensive Wikipedia "manuals" available under
free licenses, both in printed form and online:

* http://howwikipediaworks.com/ - under the GFDL
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual -
GFDL (I think it missed the cut-off for switching to CC-BY-SA, though
I'm not sure)

By contrast, AFAIK there is no freely licensed manual for MediaWiki
(see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Books ).

cheers
Brianna


2009/9/1 Christopher Lynch <dxd54 at optimum.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to get some publicity about the Wikipedia Manual
>
> It is still very new and needs writing
>
> Focus on
> . Formatting
> . MediaWiki
> . About Wikipedia
> . Creating Pages
> . Editing pages
> . Talk pages
> . User pages
> . Portals
> . Etc.
>
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