Wikipedia:Contribution Team/Videos

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This is just a very, very brief page at the moment, with a list of what videos we want to make. Shamelessly stolen itself from here. Scripts and things to come soon! Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 23:27, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

See also http://bookshelf.wikimedia.org for more videos.

User accounts

• Create an account
• Create a user page

Communication

• Comment on a talk page
• Check messages on your talk page. When you receive more than one message since the last time you logged in, you need to either click the hist arrow on the message notification, or go to the talk page hist and do a compare
• Enable your own email
• Use all the buttons down the left side of the page, especially the "email this user" button

Navigation

• Get to the edit screen
• Navigate the hist of any article or page
• Using Wikipedia shortcuts

Article how-tos

• Add references
• Make a simple edit in a real article; probably with a comment on how not to be put off by complex infoboxes at the top and their syntax
• Create a new article
• Use templates such as filling in a citation template, an infobox, or adding a navbox
• Upload an image and add it to an article

Policies

• What the 5 pillars/most important policies (verifiability, what WP is not, etc.) are to give an outline of how the project "works"

Video interviews

• A longer video where an editor describes how he or she has written a DYKable article from scratch
• An interview with a Good or Featured article creator, describing that process