User:MontOther/Training
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A page of step by step guidelines is here: User:MontOther/Practice
Using
- Search box
- Links
- Navigation
- Categories and navboxes
- How to evaluate a WP article, enlarge at
- Evaluating Wikipedia (brochure)
- Wikipedia's best articles:
- Other features of wikipedia:
- Article history: "View history" tab
- Article talk pages: "Talk" tab
- "Sister" projects:
- Wikimedia Commons for images and video
- Wikisource
- Other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation at the bottom of the main page
- Other languages: List of all 288 wikipedias in all languages
- GLAM
Introduction to Editing
- Wikipedia:Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
- Wikipedia policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
- Editing Wikipedia (brochure)
Account creation
- Editing Anonymously: has drawbacks.
- Cannot create articles, cannot edit protected articles
- Your IP address is visible
- Why this is generally not a great idea: harmless edit but oops!
- 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
- Conflict of interest basics:
Basic editing
- Overview video
- History page: You can undo anything!
- Help:Cheatsheet
- Your first edits:
- Typographical errors, common misspellings, fixing duplicate words ("the the")
- Use your sandbox to play with the editing toolbar and manual markup
- Citing Sources: Help:Referencing_for_beginners:
- Videos on referencing: part 1 (ref tags) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2HFdEtYDyc
- part 2 (cite button) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2HFdEtYDyc
- Neutrality, verifiability and originality:
- Neutral point of view
- Everything should be verifiable with a citation from a reliable source
- Do not plagiarize or copy and paste
- Wikipedia is not the place for original research or editorializing
Article creation
- Sandboxing
- Create at redlink
- Moving to mainspace
- Articles for creation—backlogged!
- New bio prep tool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php
- Writing history articles: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_articles_on_History.pdf
More on GLAM
Commons
Videos
- Wikimedia foundation videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgIIsBhcseFH1Kghmo0ULbA
- Basic markup: Bold and links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxjrtot1M8&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVjAVQo8Qv_ohNP5r7JuzhRo
- editing and uploading images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAy_kBBqs0U&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVjAVQo8Qv_ohNP5r7JuzhRo
- Plagiarism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbI1rqRVq7c&list=UUgIIsBhcseFH1Kghmo0ULbA
- Sandboxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7EEn1zTNkU&list=PLVx9pX-VnGVjAVQo8Qv_ohNP5r7JuzhRo
Training tools
- How Wikipedia Works (2008) 400+ page comprehensive manual.
- WP:EXPERTS
- http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2015/feb/06/academic-approval-encyclopedic-website-no-longer-seen-even-educators-den-info-iniquity/286784/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students
- User:WereSpielChequers/image adding
- File:User contributions detail.png
- Tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table/Introduction_to_tables
Editing in the gender gap
News
- WP on 60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
- Vandal segment: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/wiki-vandals-policing-bias-and-false-information
- BLP: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/george-w-bushs-wikipedia-page
- COI: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/wikipedia-as-pr-tool
Policies on paid editing and COI disclosure
- https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#4._Refraining_from_Certain_Activities
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure
- Don't do this
- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/16/change-terms-of-use-requirements-for-disclosure/
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/17/wikipedia-is-acting-against-its-secret-lobbyists/
- http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-sockpuppet-investigation-largest-network-history-wiki-pr/
Samples and examples
From sandbox draft to mainspace article: Nelson Story
Resources
Training tools
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relationships_with_academic_editors
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Randy_in_Boise
- https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/For_trainers/Sample_sessions
- https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/For_trainers
- https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Training
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Creating_new_articles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:New_user_article
- User:Fuzheado#Experiences
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Acroterion/Dealing_with_the_young
- https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Basic_Wikipedia_training
- https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Basic_Commons_training
- https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_joint_workshop
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_partnership_workshop
Education programs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Student_assignments
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program/Educators
- http://www.mtmemory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p103401coll12
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Instructional_videos
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Resources
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Starting_an_education_program
- https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Program_plans