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Using

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  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

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

Account creation

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  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

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  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

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  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

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Commons

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Licensing tutorial handout enlarge

Videos

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Training tools

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Editing in the gender gap

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News

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Policies on paid editing and COI disclosure

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Samples and examples

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From sandbox draft to mainspace article: Nelson Story

Resources

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Training tools

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

User contributions page

Education programs

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Gadgets, templates and handy stuff

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Continuing education

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Slides

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Shortcuts

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Notes

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