Talk:How Wikipedia Works

The initial book outline and work was done on a wiki, and some of that may be useful here -- whatever ended up on the cutting room floor but may be fodder for future revisions or improvements. It might be useful to have a 'scraps' page for books in progress, as was found to be the case for a short period at least on the drafting wiki.

It was mentioned last weekend at the NYC Wikiconference that the authors are going to discuss relicensing the book under CC-SA 3 for wikibooks compatibility. Until then, I am simply adding some of the outline structure and metadata here. Whiteknight has a copy of the html of the online book, and hopefully we can get that converted and posted at some point -- then we'll just have to clean it up and perhaps organize the sections and sub-chapters into their own pages. Sj (talk) 03:36, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Appendix E will be particularly fun- it lists in detail every page-revision referenced for the book and the 5 active authors of that page; this could be very effectively linked by a script to the original revisions and authors. Sj (talk) 03:38, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

CC-By-SA
This book has been licensed CC-BY-SA by the authors; see http://howwikipediaworks.net. The full text is available on the Internet Archive. -- Phoebe (discuss • contribs) 02:05, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Awesome.  Sj (discuss • contribs) 21:01, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Text
The full text can be found here, but it needs to be reformatted into wikibooks. I will work on this slowly; help is welcome! -- Phoebe (discuss • contribs) 02:13, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * It seems those pages still link to the Internet Archive's copy at - is that the right place to draw from?  I don't see a source that has the images yet.  Sj (discuss • contribs) 21:01, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the images aren't archived; I'm going to have to get them out of my files. I'm getting the text from the IA, yes. I linked to the individual IA chapters from howwikipediaworks.net, which is handy; they're a little hard to find otherwise. -- Phoebe (discuss • contribs) 06:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)