- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
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- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
- I. Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles
- 1. Editing for the First Time
- 2. Documenting Your Sources
- 3. Setting Up Your Account and Personal Workspace
- 4. Creating a New Article
- 5. Who Did What: Page Histories and Reverting
- 6. Monitoring Changes
- The User Contributions Page
- Wikipedia’s Standard Watchlist
- Multiple Watchlists
- Real-Time Monitoring Alternatives
- 7. Dealing with Vandalism and Spam
- II. Collaborating with Other Editors
- 8. Communicating with Your Fellow Editors
- 9. WikiProjects and Other Group Efforts
- 10. Resolving Content Disputes
- 11. Handling Incivility and Personal Attacks
- Enforcing Norms of Conduct
- Dealing with Incivility and Personal Attacks
- Initial Responses
- Don’t respond until you can respond unemotionally
- Don’t attack back
- Decide if you even need to respond
- Don’t comment about problematical behavior on article talk pages
- If you respond, be factual, not emotional
- Your response should depend on the editor
- Don’t argue about warnings
- Read other editors’ essays about civility
- Explore Less Formal Solutions
- Use Formal Processes
- Initial Responses
- When You Get Irritated (or Worse)
- 12. Lending Other Editors a Hand
- III. Formatting and Illustrating Articles
- 13. Article Sections and Tables of Contents
- 14. Creating Lists and Tables
- 15. Adding Images
- IV. Building a Stronger Encyclopedia
- 16. Getting Readers to the Right Article: Naming, Redirects, and Disambiguation
- 17. Categorizing Articles
- 18. Better Articles: A Systematic Approach
- Avoid Surprises
- Don’t Suppress or Separate Controversy
- Reorganize and Edit Existing Content
- Don’t Take Article Scope as a Given
- Improve the Citation of Sources
- Build the Web
- Look for Guidance and Examples
- Add Sourced Content
- Remove Cruft and Duplication
- Get the Wording Right
- Make the Article Look Appealing
- 19. Deleting Existing Articles
- V. Customizing Wikipedia
- VI. Appendixes
- A. A Tour of the Wikipedia Page
- B. Reader’s Guide to Wikipedia
- C. Learning More
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
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If you like to keep your hands on your keyboard, typing key combinations to save time rather than using the mouse, you may be surprised not to find many keyboard shortcuts sprinkled throughout this book. Wikipedia does have such shortcuts, but the exact key combinations depend not only on your operating system (Mac or Windows) and your Web browser, but even the version of the Web browser you’re using.
The page Wikipedia:Keyboard shortcuts (shortcut: WP:K) tells you what special keys to press in combination letter or number keys to do something. For example, in Internet Explorer for Windows, Shift+Alt+Z takes you to the Main Page. A number of the keystrokes work for administrators (sysops) only. But you’ll also find keyboard shortcuts that are alternatives to using the mouse for a lot of things that you might otherwise use a mouse click:
Getting to the search box
Buttons below the edit box, like “Show preview” and Save
The standard tabs along the top of the page
The six links at the upper-right of the screen
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