Citizen Science and Crowd Sourcing: Wikipedia Editing

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

• 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

• Contributing is easy: see how to edit a page. For a quick summary on participating, see the Plain and simple guide. The Cheatsheet will remind you of basic wiki markup. Wiki markup is required on some pages, such as Talk Pages, but you can use the spiffy new Visual Editor for most editing.
• Try the game: The Wikipedia Adventure!
  • Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour! Come on a journey full of real skills, tips, helpers, rewards, and support.
• You can practice editing and experiment in a sandbox.
• Be bold in improving articles! When adding facts, please provide references so others may verify them. If you are affiliated with the article subject, please see the conflict of interest guideline.
• If you're looking for projects or places you can help out, the Community portal is the place to go.

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