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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page xxi
5th paragraph

The TinyURL link is given as "htp://tinyurl/yo82k3" -- missing the ".com" necessary for the address to
resolve.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page xix
Add. to "Mac OS, Windows, ... heading section

A suggestion to put everyone on the same page for inexperienced editors: give a brief intro. to the appearance of Wikipedia for non-logged-in users. While there is now a default (Vector) putting the "search" box on the right, a choice of the other three (Monobook, Modern, Cologne Blue) moves the search box back to the left bar (referred to in most discussions in the book). This means either:

1. Discussing briefly the way to change the preferences/appearance option to put things back to where the book is, or...

2. Redo all book references to the search bar to make it "...on the right" instead of on the left.

This point in the foreword might be the best place to avoid confusing people later.

 J. T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 5
Item 2, bottom

"edit this page" now just "Edit".

 J. T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 6
Fig. 1-2 replacement needed, with corresp. caption change

Fig. requires replacement and the last caption sentence should be replaced with, "The 'Insert' dropdown menu provides tables of clickable special characters and symbols."

 J. T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 7
Fig. 1-3 and related caption

Replace Fig. 1-3, and change caption to describe current default content of Sandbox: "The first line is a template (see page ...) and everything remaining between "<!--" and ending with "-->" is an invisible comment..."

 J. T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 7
First note

Revise note to describe the choices for the "Insert" drop-down menu.

J.T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 7
Item 3.

Remove first sentence and begin with "The edit box... ", which should reflect a changed Fig. 1-3.

 J.T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 7
Second note

Remove "...top three..." to reflect changed inst. lines in new Fig. 1-3 example.

 J.T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 7
Item 4.

Remove "...first three..." from the first sentence.

 J.T.  Mar 28, 2014 
Printed Page 9
Fig. 1-5 caption

"As noted in Figure 1-2...(...checkboxes for "This is a minor edit" and "Watch this page"... .) Those checkboxes aren't shown in Fig. 1-2

 J. in CO  Mar 26, 2014 
Printed Page 36
line 4 from bottom

the mopst common
should be
the most common

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 36
3rd bullet

Saying, "The reason is that the software found within the brackets both a URL and some following text." is incorrect. It should say "The reason is that the bracketed URL and text are within reference (<ref>...</ref>) tags.". The numeric tag occurs with or without text after the URL.

 J.T.  Apr 04, 2014 
Printed Page 56
box about userboxes, 2nd paragraph

The shortcut WP:BOX should be WP:UBX. WP:BOX goes to the Sandbox.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 149
last two sentences of the page

This wording is no longer correct:

the "+" tab

It should be changed to this wording:

the "new section" tab

In both of the bottom two sentences on the page

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 150
Caption for Figure 8-2

This wording is no longer correct:

The plus ("+") tab on article talk pages

It should be changed to this wording:

The "new section" tab on article talk pages

And a new figure is needed as well.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 157
First paragraph of the section "User Talk Page Basics"

This wording is no longer correct:

using the "+" tab.

It should be changed to this wording:

using the "new section" tab.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 192
line 7 from bottom, just below 2nd note

involved n a content dispute
should be
involved in a content dispute

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 289
Figure 15-14

text is chopped off at right and at bottom

 Anonymous