The author concludes the main content of the book with a section on customizing your experience with Wikipedia through existing user preferences and the addition of editor-created JavaScript code that modify the behavior of Wikipedia pages when you are editing them. This is the main section I know I will be referring back to over the next few weeks and months as I tweak my Wikipedia account with the information gleaned from this book.
If you have no interest in becoming a Wikipedia editor, you may find "Appendix B: Reader's Guide to Wikipedia" to be of interest. At around twenty pages in length, it is a comprehensible explanation of the purpose of Wikipedia, why you would want to use it, and a few key aspects that you will want to pay attention to.
Unless the site makes some radical changes, Wikipedia – the Missing Manual is not likely to be one of those tomes that addresses content on the web and becomes irrelevant even before it is published. This book would be appropriate for both personal and shared libraries, and should be on your bookshelf if you do or ever plan to contribute to the Wikipedia project.
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