User:ToniSant/Workshops2

Session 1

Preliminaries

• Registering
• The user page (I'll show you mine if you show me yours!)
• Basic wikitext (see PDF handout)
• Selecting a page to create/edit (+ Notability)
• Sandbox (for future easy access, you can put {{My sandbox}} on your userpage or [[User:otherusername/sandbox|insert Actual Name here]] to link to someone else's sandbox on your userpage.)
• Using the Watchlist
• View History
• Simplified Help

Preparing your first public contribution

• Talk pages (meeting other wikipedians)
• Communicating with other Wikipedians (using Template:Talkback)
• Preliminary work on your contributions (ask a question at the Wikipedia:Teahouse)
• Remember that this is an {{Educational assignment}} (see below)

Preparing for the next session

1. Find at least one primary source and at least one secondary source about the subject you're working on.
2. Bring the two (or more) sources with you to the lab.
3. Make sure you've written an appropriate topic sentence (as outlined at Wikipedia:LEAD) to appear as the very first thing you're going to upload about your subject, possibly as a {{stub}}
4. Think about what else you want to include on your User Page aside from what you've already written there.
5. Work on your User Page so it's clear that you've done more on it that we did together during the first workshop
6. Prepare one or two short paragraphs about your subject
7. Prepare a question for the Tea House and feel free to submit it ahead of the second workshop so that you can share the experience with the rest of us in the lab.

Session 2

Managing and enhancing your contributions

• Devising a strategy for your article (i.e. establishing Notability) - are there any pages that (should) link to your article? Do they?
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Citation/References (see PDF handout)
• Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books

Improving an article

• Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
• How to assess an article and improve it (4:22 video)
• Constructive editing (see also Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation)
• Living with other wikipedians

Refining your contribution

• Cross-linking
• Use of categories
• Uploading Images to Wikipedia

Remember to add the template {{Educational assignment}} to the talk page of any article you are creating or significantly editing for your assignment.

More precisely, add a tag like this to the talk page/s of the article/s you're working on:

{{Educational assignment|month=10|year=2012|link=Wikipedia:School and university projects/Applied and Interactive Theatre 2012}}

Preparing your presentation

You can find guidelines on preparing a presentation about your work on the Wikipedia assignment by clicking here.