Notes for a public presentation I shall be giving at the River John C@P site in the library, December 10, 2015 from 6:30pm-8:00pm AST.

Introduction
Wikimedia Foundation
A typical Wikipedia page

Surrey

  • Search
  • Read; Edit; History
  • Talk
  • Toolbar - What links here; Create a book; Other languages

Other types of articles

Namespaces

"Namespace" is a reserved word followed by a colon to identify particular types of page. For example:

Most also have Talk pages associated with them:

The nuts and bolts of editing
Where to start?
  • Recommend you start by making minor changes to existing pages:
Just browse around until you see something that needs fixing, or look for problems that have been flagged:
Dead-end pages
Links to Disambiguation pages
also on that page, see sidebar, Active Wiki Fixup Projects



Problems
  • Gender bias
  • Geographic bias
  • Language bias
  • Article improvement