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How Wikipedia Works
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How Wikipedia Works

by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates
September 2008
Beginner
536 pages
15h 41m
English
No Starch Press
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Appendix E. History

This book is dependent on thousands of pages of documentation for Wikipedia, MediaWiki, and Wikimedia Foundation operations that have been written by members of the Wikimedia community over the years. In this appendix, per the terms of the GFDL that both Wikipedia and this book are licensed under, we list the Wikipedia pages that we have quoted or paraphrased and the images from Wikipedia that we have used. These do not reflect all of the ideas in this work, many of which are our interpretation of Wikipedia policies and practices, or all of the links given in the “Further Reading” sections in this book.

The citations below list a link to the Wikipedia page, permanent link to the version used, and the top five contributors to ...

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