Wikipedia:Meetup/Nebraska/Resources

Editing Wikipedia resources

If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.
N.B. Also located on the Resources page referenced above under Editor Resources See Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources

Tutorial: Getting Started Guide (Presentation in DC)
Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
Five Pillars of Wikipedia (philosophical guidelines and best practices for Wikipedia editing)
Tutorial
How to Edit a Page
Wiki Markup Quick Reference (PDF version of printed handout)
Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
Article Development
Your First Article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style
Citation templates
Infobox templates
Bookshelf (additional "getting started" resources)
Art+Feminism - Video training
Art+Feminism - Training Lesson Plan
wikiD Guides for Wikipedia Editing:

Introduction and Guide 1: Getting Started! – Why Edit Wikipedia?, Using the WikiD Guides and Getting Started.

Guide 2: Selecting and Researching a Topic/Subject – Choosing a Subject, References and Sources and Images.

Guide 3: Writing an Entry – Tone and Style, Content and Structure, Building an Argument, Precedents and Article Titles.

Guide 4: Navigating the Wikipedia Interface – Editing Interfaces, Creating a New Article, Editing Existing Pages and Disambiguation

Guide 5: Troubleshooting – Deleted Pages, Flagged Pages and Talk Pages

Tools and templates

N.B. There is an IRC channel if online participants need help:

Wikipedia:IRC/wikipedia-en-help

#wikipedia-en-help ^connect

WikiLove

WikiLove
- Templates to share, WikiLove templates

External links

Wikipedia Meetup - Nebraska (main events page)

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