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The Tiny Guide to Wikis and Wikipedia

"The Tiny Guide to Wikis and Wikipedia" is a project to collaboratively write a guidebook to the wiki phenomenon.

Conceived by Benjamin Horst and James Benstead, we'd like to cover two broad avenues of inquiry: a technical introduction to the use of wiki software (including multiple wiki engines, from MediaWiki to TWiki, wikiCalc, and others), and a sociological study of the Wikipedia itself, focusing on how it works as a community, its similarities to the Free Software world, and its central role as one of the world's pre-eminent Free Culture projects.

After a period of writing and developing these concepts as a living wiki, we intend to publish a printed book copy of this work.

You can also fill in the "About" page at Project:About.

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Major Sections of this Wiki

• Book Chapters
• Bibliography
• Global To-Do List
• Interviews
• Toolkit
• Publicity and Marketing

Where to start

• If you are new to wikis, you may want to try the tutorial on the Central Wikia
• There is some advice on getting this wiki started at Help:Starting this wiki
• A list of all help pages can be found at Category:Help