WPI Wikipedia Editing Community: Training

Where to start

• The Community portal includes lists of editing tasks you can work on including adding images, fixing links, and more.
• Template messages\Cleanup: These messages are used to notify other editors that an entry could use some work.

Like to write?

• Wikipedia articles that need copy editing
• Stubs are articles that need to be written
• Articles to be expanded are more than stubs, but still need work

Like to do research?

• Fact and Reference Checks
• Articles with Unsourced Statements (citation needed)
• Articles Lacking Reliable References
• Articles Lacking Sources
• Articles Needing Additional References

Create an Account. You do not need to register a username to edit, but registration is strongly encouraged.

• Please review the username policy page on Wikipedia before choosing your Wikipedia name!
• As you compare the pros and cons of using one's own name or a pseudonym on Wiki see this article for additional insight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_anonymous
• When you create a new account, you have certain privileges. Once you have been active in Wikipedia with your new account, you can attain certain access levels, which include the ability to start a new article. All of this (including the intricacies of what those privileges can be) is outlined on the User Access Levels page.

Basic Editing - Training

If you are quite new to editing Wikipedia, watch these videos (created in the context of the ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia:Meetup):

• Editing Wikipedia: A guide to improving content on the online encyclopedia
• Basic Rules of Wikipedia editing
• Your First Edits Userpages and the Sandbox
• Adding Citations
• Adding Images to Articles
• Creating New Articles

More in-depth topics

• Wikipedia Notability Guidelines
• Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
• Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles
• Tips for writing women's biographies

You can also review these Wikipedia Training Modules or these Professional Development Training Modules to get ready to edit.