- 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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Your watchlist lets you monitor changes to pages. The settings in this tab let you customize your watchlist report, which shows recent edits to pages on your watchlist, including changing to an expanded version of the watchlist report. The expanded version shows all changes to all watched pages during a period, not just the most recent. The settings in this tab are discussed extensively in Chapter 6, starting on Permanent changes via your preferences page.
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