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A page of step by step guidelines is here: User:MontOther/Practice

Using edit

  1. Search box
  2. Links
  3. Navigation
    • Categories and navboxes
  4. How to evaluate a WP article, enlarge at [1]
  5. Evaluating Wikipedia (brochure)
  6. Wikipedia's best articles:
  7. Other features of wikipedia:
    • Article history: "View history" tab
    • Article talk pages: "Talk" tab
  8. "Sister" projects:
  9. GLAM

Introduction to Editing edit

  1. Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
  2. Wikipedia policies and guidelines
  3. Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
  4. Editing Wikipedia (brochure)

Account creation edit

  1. Editing Anonymously: has drawbacks.
    • Cannot create articles, cannot edit protected articles
    • Your IP address is visible
  2. Creating an account with a username is a better approach
    • Hides your IP address, increased privacy if you need it
    • Increases your credibility
    • Allows broader ability to create, edit and move articles
    • More tools are at your disposal
  3. Conflict of interest basics:
  1. Advice from Andy: [2]

Basic editing edit

  1. Overview video
  2. History page: You can undo anything!
  3. Help:Cheatsheet
  4. Your first edits:
    • Typographical errors, common misspellings, fixing duplicate words ("the the")
    • Use your sandbox to play with the editing toolbar and manual markup
  5. Citing Sources: Help:Referencing_for_beginners:
  6. Neutrality, verifiability and originality:

Article creation edit

  1. Sandboxing
  2. Create at redlink
  3. Moving to mainspace
  4. Articles for creation—backlogged!
  1. New bio prep tool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php
  2. Writing history articles: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_articles_on_History.pdf

More on GLAM edit

Commons edit

 
Licensing tutorial handout enlarge

Videos edit

Training tools edit

Editing in the gender gap edit

News edit

Policies on paid editing and COI disclosure edit

Samples and examples edit

From sandbox draft to mainspace article: Nelson Story

Resources edit

Training tools edit

https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_partnership_workshop

 
User contributions page

Education programs edit

Gadgets, templates and handy stuff edit

Continuing education edit

Slides edit

Shortcuts edit

Notes edit

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