AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki:About

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is a web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based on an openly editable model.

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is written collaboratively by largely anonymous Internet volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki articles (except in certain cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism). Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or with their real identity, if they choose.

Further information on key topics appears below. For help getting started with editing or other issues.

About AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki

Trademarks and copyrights

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is a registered trademark of the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which has created a family of free-content projects that are built by user contributions.

Most of AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki's text and many of its images are dual-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Some text has been imported only under CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-SA-compatible license and cannot be reused under GFDL; such text will be identified either on the page footer, in the page history or on the discussion page of the article that utilizes the text. Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licenses ensure the content is freely distributable and reproducible. (See the copyright notice and the content disclaimer for more information.)

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki contributors

Anyone with Web access can edit AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki, and this openness encourages inclusion of a tremendous amount of content.

Several mechanisms are in place to help AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki members carry out the important work of crafting a high-quality resource while maintaining civility. Editors are able to watch pages and techies can write editing programs to keep track of or rectify bad edits. Where there are disagreements on how to present facts, editors work together to arrive at an article that fairly represents current expert opinion on the subject.

Although the Wikimedia Foundation owns the site, it is largely uninvolved in writing and daily operations.

If any of you interested to become writer, contact for permissions.

Credits

Text on AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is a collaborative work, and the efforts of individual contributors to a page are recorded in that page's history, which is publicly viewable. See Help:Page history. Information on the authorship of images and other media, such as sound files, can be found by clicking on the image itself or the nearby information icon. The file page for the image or media will be displayed and it includes the author and source, where appropriate, along with other information.

Making the best use of AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki

Basic navigation in AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki articles are all linked, or cross-referenced. When highlighted text like this is seen, it means there is a link to some relevant article or AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki page with further in-depth information elsewhere. Holding the mouse over the link will often show to where the link will lead. The reader is always one click away from more information on any point that has a link attached. There are other links towards the ends of most articles, for other articles of interest, relevant external websites and pages, reference material, and organized categories of knowledge which can be searched and traversed in a loose hierarchy for more information. Some articles may also have links to dictionary definitions, audio-book readings, quotations, the same article in other languages, and further information available on our sister projects. Further links can be added if a relevant link is missing, and this is one way to contribute.

Using AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki as a research tool

As wiki documents, articles are never considered complete and may be continually edited and improved. Over time, this generally results in an upward trend of quality and a growing consensus over a neutral representation of information.

The ideal AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki article is well-written, balanced, neutral, and encyclopedic, containing comprehensive, notable, verifiable knowledge. An increasing number of articles reach this standard over time, and many already have. Our best articles are called Featured Articles (and display a small star in the upper right corner of the article), and our second best tier of articles are designated Good Articles. However, this is a process and can take months or years to be achieved, as each user adds their contribution in turn. Some articles contain statements which have not yet been fully cited. Others will later be augmented with new sections. Some information will be considered by later contributors to be insufficiently founded and, therefore, may be removed or expunged.

While the overall trend is toward improvement, it is important to use AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki carefully if it is intended to be used as a research source, since individual articles will, by their nature, vary in quality and maturity.

Strengths, weaknesses, and article quality in AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki's greatest strengths, weaknesses, and differences all arise because it is open to anyone, it has a large contributor base, and its articles are written by consensus, according to editorial guidelines and policies.

• AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is open to a large contributor base, drawing a large number of editors from diverse backgrounds. This allows AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki to significantly reduce regional and cultural bias found in many other publications, and makes it very difficult for any group to censor and impose bias. A large, diverse editor base also provides access and breadth on subject matter that is otherwise inaccessible or little documented. A large number of editors contributing at any moment also means that AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki can produce encyclopedic articles and resources covering newsworthy events within hours or days of their occurrence. It also means that like any publication, AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki may reflect the cultural, age, socio-economic, and other biases of its contributors. There is no systematic process to make sure that "obviously important" topics are written about, so AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki may contain unexpected oversights and omissions. While most articles may be altered by anyone, in practice editing will be performed by a certain demographic (younger rather than older, male rather than female, rich enough to afford a computer rather than poor, et cetera) and may, therefore, show some bias. Some topics may not be covered well, while others may be covered in great depth.

• Allowing anyone to edit AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki means that it is more easily vandalized or susceptible to unchecked information, which requires removal. See AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki:Administrator intervention against vandalism. While blatant vandalism is usually easily spotted and rapidly corrected, AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is more subject to subtle viewpoint promotion than a typical reference work. However, bias that would be unchallenged in a traditional reference work is likely to be ultimately challenged or considered on AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki. While AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki articles generally attain a good standard after editing, it is important to note that fledgling articles and those monitored less well may be susceptible to vandalism and insertion of false information. AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki's radical openness also means that any given article may be, at any given moment, in a bad state, such as in the middle of a large edit, or a controversial rewrite. Many contributors do not yet comply fully with key policies, or may add information without citable sources. AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki's open approach tremendously increases the chances that any particular factual error or misleading statement will be relatively promptly corrected. Numerous editors at any given time are monitoring recent changes and edits to articles on their watchlist.

• AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is written by open and transparent consensus—an approach that has its pros and cons. Censorship or imposing "official" points of view is extremely difficult to achieve and usually fails after a time. Eventually for most articles, all notable views become fairly described and a neutral point of view reached. In reality, the process of reaching consensus may be long and drawn-out, with articles fluid or changeable for a long time while they find their "neutral approach" that all sides can agree on. Reaching neutrality is occasionally made harder by extreme-viewpoint contributors. AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki operates a full editorial dispute resolution process, one that allows time for discussion and resolution in depth, but one that also permits disagreements to last for months before poor-quality or biased edits are removed. A common conclusion is that AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is a valuable resource and provides a good reference point on its subjects.

• That said, articles and subject areas sometimes suffer from significant omissions, and while misinformation and vandalism are usually corrected quickly, this does not always happen. (See for example this incident in which a person inserted a fake biography linking a prominent journalist to the Kennedy assassinations and Soviet Russia as a joke on a co-worker which went undetected for four months, saying afterwards he "didn't know AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki was used as a serious reference tool.")

• AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is written largely by amateurs. Those with expert credentials are given no additional weight. Some experts contend that expert credentials are given less weight than contributions by amateurs. AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is also not subject to any peer review for scientific or medical or engineering articles. One advantage to having amateurs write in AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is that they have more free time on their hands so that they can make rapid changes in response to current events. The wider the general public interest in a topic, the more likely it is to attract contributions from non-specialists.

The MediaWiki software that runs AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki retains a history of all edits and changes, thus information added to AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki never "vanishes". Discussion pages are an important resource on contentious topics. Therefore, serious researchers can often find a wide range of vigorously or thoughtfully advocated viewpoints not present in the consensus article. As with any source, information should be checked. A 2005 editorial by a BBC technology writer comments that these debates are probably symptomatic of cultural changes that are happening across all sources of information (including search engines and the media), and may lead to "a better sense of how to evaluate information sources.

Disclaimers

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki disclaimers apply to all pages on AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki. However, the consensus in AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is to put all disclaimers only as links and at the bottom of each article. Proposals to have a warning box at the top have been rejected. Some do not like the way it looks or that it calls attention to possible errors in AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki.

Contributing to AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki

Anyone can contribute to AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki by clicking on the Edit this page tab in an article. Before beginning to contribute, however, read some handy helping tools such as the tutorial and the policies and guidelines, as well as our welcome page. It is important to realize that in contributing to AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki, users are expected to be civil and neutral, respecting all points of view, and only add verifiable and factual information rather than personal views and opinions. "The five pillars of AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki" cover this approach and are recommended reading before editing. (Vandals are reported via the Administrator Notice Board and may be temporarily blocked from editing AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki.) Most articles start as stubs, but after many contributions, they can become featured articles. Once the contributor has decided a topic of interest, they may want to request that the article be written (or they could research the issue and write it themselves). AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki has on-going projects, focused on specific topic areas or tasks, which help coordinate editing. The ease of editing AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki results in many people editing. That makes the updating of the encyclopedia very quick, almost as fast as news websites.

Editing AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki pages

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki uses a simple yet powerful page layout to allow editors to concentrate on adding material rather than page design. These include automatic sections and subsections, automatic references and cross-references, image and table inclusion, indented and listed text, links, ISBNs, and math, as well as usual formatting elements and most world alphabets and common symbols. Most of these have simple formats that are deliberately very easy and intuitive.

The page layout consists of tabs along the top of the window. These are:

• Article. Shows the main AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki article.
• Discussion. Shows a user discussion about the article's topic and possible revisions, controversies, etc.
• Edit. This tab allows users to edit the article. Depending on the page's susceptibility to vandalism, according to its visibility or the degree of controversy surrounding the topic, this tab may not be shown for all users. (For example, any user who is not an administrator will not be able to edit the Main Page).
• View history. This tab allows readers to view the editors of the article and the changes that have been made.
• Star. ("Watch") If you are logged in to your account, clicking on the star icon will cause any changes made to the article to be displayed on the watchlist. (Note: when this icon is clicked, it changes to a filled-in star.)

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki has robust version and reversion controls. This means that poor-quality edits or vandalism can quickly and easily be reversed or brought up to an appropriate standard by any other editor, so inexperienced editors cannot accidentally do permanent harm if they make a mistake in their editing. As there are many more editors intent on improving articles than not, error-ridden articles are usually corrected promptly.

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki content criteria

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki content is intended to be factual, notable, verifiable with cited external sources, and neutrally presented.

Editorial administration, oversight, and management

The AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki community is largely self-organising, so that anyone may build a reputation as a competent editor and become involved in any role he/she may choose, subject to peer approval. Individuals often will choose to become involved in specialised tasks, such as reviewing articles at others' request, watching current edits for vandalism, watching newly created articles for quality control purposes, or similar roles. Editors who believe they can serve the community better by taking on additional administrative responsibility may ask their peers for agreement to undertake such responsibilities. This structure enforces meritocracy and communal standards of editorship and conduct. At present a minimum approval of 75–80% from the community is required to take on these additional tools and responsibilities. This standard tends to ensure a high level of experience, trust, and familiarity across a broad front of aspects within AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki.

A variety of software-assisted systems and automated programs help editors and administrators to watch for problematic edits and editors. Theoretically all editors and users are treated equally with no "power structure". There is, however a hierarchy of permissions and positions, some of which are listed below:

1. Anyone can edit most of the articles here. Some articles are protected due to vandalism or edit-warring, and can only be edited by certain editors.
2. Anyone with an account that has been registered for four days or longer and made ten edits becomes Autoconfirmed, and gains the technical ability to do three things that non-autoconfirmed editors cannot:
   • Move articles.
   • Edit semi-protected articles.
   • Vote in certain elections (minimum edit count to receive suffrage varies depending on the election).
3. Many editors with accounts obtain access to certain tools that make editing easier and faster. Few editors learn about most of those tools, but one common privilege granted to editors in good standing is "rollback", which is the ability to undo edits more easily.
4. Administrators ("admins" or "sysops") have been approved by the community, and have access to some significant administrative tools. They can delete articles, block accounts or IP addresses, and edit fully protected articles.
5. Bureaucrats are chosen in a process similar to that for selecting administrators. There are not very many bureaucrats. They have the technical ability to add or remove admin rights, approve or revoke "bot" privileges, and rename user accounts.
6. The Arbitration Committee is like AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki's supreme court. They deal with disputes that remain unresolved after other attempts at dispute resolution have failed. Members of this Committee are elected by the community and tend to be selected from among the pool of experienced admins.
7. Stewards are the top echelon of technical permissions, other than the Wikimedia Board of Directors. Stewards can do a few technical things, and one almost never hears much about them since they normally only act when a local admin or bureaucrat is not available, and hence almost never on the English AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki. There are very few stewards.

Handling disputes and abuse

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki has a rich set of methods to handle most abuses that commonly arise. These methods are well-tested and should be relied upon.

• Intentional vandalism can be reported and corrected by anyone.
• Unresolved disputes between editors, whether based upon behavior, editorial approach, or validity of content, can be addressed through the talk page of an article, through requesting comments from other editors or through AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki's comprehensive dispute resolution process.
• Abuse of user accounts, such as the creation of "Internet sock puppets" or solicitation of friends and other parties to enforce a non-neutral viewpoint or inappropriate consensus within a discussion, or to disrupt other AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki processes in an annoying manner, are addressed through the sock puppet policy.

In addition, brand new users (until they have established themselves a bit) may at the start find that their votes are given less weight by editors in some informal polls, in order to prevent abuse of single-purpose accounts.

Editorial quality review

As well as systems to catch and control substandard and vandalistic edits, AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki also has a full style and content manual and a variety of positive systems for continual article review and improvement. Examples of the processes include peer review, good article assessment, and the featured article process, a rigorous review of articles that are intended to meet the highest standards and showcase AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki's capability to produce high-quality work.

Technical attributes

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki uses MediaWiki software, the open-source program used not only on Wikimedia projects but also on many other third-party websites. The hardware supporting the Wikimedia projects is based on several hundred servers in various hosting centers around the world. Full descriptions of these servers and their roles are available on this meta page. For technical information about AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki, check Technical FAQs. AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki publishes various types of metadata; and, across its pages, are many thousands of microformats. AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki does not place cookies or other tracking software on users' computers[5] except for cookies associated with logging into a Wikimedia account.

Feedback and questions

AbanteCart Documentaion Wiki is run as a communal effort. It is a community project whose result is an encyclopedia. Feedback about content should, in the first instance, be raised on the discussion pages of those articles. Be bold and edit the pages to add information or correct mistakes.