Part III. Community
Prev   Next

Part III. Community

Chapter 11, Becoming a Wikipedian

Chapter 12, Community and Communication

Chapter 13, Policy and Your Input

Chapter 14, Disputes, Blocks, and Bans

Table of Contents

11. Becoming a Wikipedian
1. On Arrival
1.1. Registering an Account
1.1.1. Privacy
1.1.2. "Anonymous" Edits
1.1.3. Usernames and Real Names
1.1.4. Deleting, Renaming, and Having Multiple Accounts
1.1.5. Is a Username Taken?
1.1.6. Creating the Account
1.2. Setting Your Preferences
1.2.1. Setting Your Signature
1.2.2. Customizing Skins and Installing Extensions
2. User Pages, Watchlists, and Edit Count
2.1. User Page Content
2.1.1. Guidelines
2.1.2. User Talk Pages
2.2. Watchlists
2.3. RSS Notification
2.4. Contribution History and Counting Edits
3. Users and Administrators
3.1. User Levels
3.2. Administrators
3.3. Requesting Help from an Administrator
3.4. Becoming an Administrator
4. Summary
12. Community and Communication
1. Wikipedia's Culture
1.1. Assumptions on Arrival
1.2. Random Acts of Kindness
1.3. The Open Door
1.4. Soft Security
1.5. Communicating with Other Editors
1.5.1. Talk Page Guidelines
1.5.2. Voting and Discussing
1.5.3. On-Wiki Forums
1.5.4. Asking Questions and Resolving Problems
1.5.5. Getting News
1.5.6. Mailing Lists and Internet Relay Chat
1.5.7. Meetups and Conferences
1.6. Wikiphilosophies
1.7. Funny Business
2. Who Writes This Thing Anyway?
2.1. Demographics
2.2. Systemic Bias
2.3. Wikipedians on Wikipedia
2.4. Operational Analysis: Raul's Laws
2.5. Practical Values, Process, and Policy
2.6. More Research Required
3. Summary
13. Policy and Your Input
1. The Spirit of Wikipedia
1.1. The Five Pillars
1.2. Ignore All Rules and Be Bold
1.3. Assume Good Faith
2. What Is Policy?
2.1. Official Policy
2.2. Policies and Guidelines
2.3. How Policies Are Created and Developed
2.4. How Policies Evolve
2.5. How to Interpret Policies and Guidelines
3. Letter of the Law
3.1. List of Policies
3.1.1. Content Policies
3.1.2. Social Policies
3.1.3. Enabling Policies
3.1.4. General Policies
3.2. List of Guidelines
3.3. Seven Policies to Study
4. Summary
14. Disputes, Blocks, and Bans
1. Content Disputes and Edit Wars
1.1. Coming to Consensus
1.2. Resolving a Dispute: Discussion
1.3. More Steps for Resolving a Content Dispute
1.4. Ineffective Solutions
1.5. Causes of Content Disputes
1.6. Case Study: Gdańsk
2. Resolving Disputes Between Editors
2.1. Dispute Resolution Processes
2.2. The Nature of Formal Evidence
2.3. Arbitration Committee
3. Blocks and Bans
3.1. Short Blocks
3.2. Longer Blocks
3.3. Bans
4. Summary
5. Conclusion to Part III
Prev   Next
19. Conclusion to Part II Home

Buy the Book		 Chapter 11. Becoming a Wikipedian