Wikipedia – The Missing Manual

{{Short description|2008 book by John Broughton}}

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| author = John Broughton

| country = United States

| language = English

| series = The Missing Manuals

| subject = Wikipedia

| genre = how-to

| publisher = O'Reilly Media

| pub_date = 2008

| media_type = paperback

| isbn = 0-596-51516-2

| congress = TK5105.8882.W54 B76 2008

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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is a 2008 book by John Broughton. It is a how-to guide that explains the process of contributing to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131 |title=The Charms of Wikipedia |last=Baker |first=Nicholson |authorlink=Nicholson Baker |magazine=The New York Review of Books |volume=55 |issue=4 |date=March 20, 2008 |access-date=May 10, 2008 |archive-date=March 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303001807/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Baker |first=Nicholson |date=2008-04-10 |title=How I fell in love with Wikipedia [1] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/apr/10/wikipedia.internet |access-date=2024-03-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

"For anyone who is interested in becoming part of the noble experiment, this book is an excellent introduction," wrote reviewer Robert Slade."[http://victoria.tc.ca/int-grps/books/techrev/bkwkpdmm.rvw Wikipedia: The Missing Manual]", BKWKPDMM.RVW, a review by Robert Slade, The Internet Review Project, 2008 Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is part of O'Reilly Media's Missing Manual series,{{Cite web |url=https://www.oreilly.com/missingmanuals/ |title=O'Reilly Missing Manual series |access-date=2018-08-10 |archive-date=2021-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210314182335/https://www.oreilly.com/missingmanuals/ |url-status=live }} which was created by David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times and Scientific American.

On January 26, 2009, O'Reilly announced that the content of the book was being released under a free license compatible with Wikipedia and that it would be available for editing in the Help area of Wikipedia.{{cite press release|url=http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2216 |title=Wikipedia: The Missing Manual Posted on Wikipedia--O'Reilly Media Alert: Edit the Book on Wikipedia |publisher=O'Reilly Media |date=January 26, 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715103527/http://openeducationnews.org/2009/01/28/wikipedia-the-missing-manual-posted-on-wikipedia/|archivedate=July 15, 2014 |url-status=dead}}

The book has a spin-off, Wikipedia Reader's Guide: The Missing Manual, consisting of Appendix B (slightly expanded) and Chapter 1 from the book.