Wikipedia:GLAM/NZBSI/Wikipedia
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Wikipedia
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- The main English Wikipedia Help page is here. It has links on how to edit a page, contributing to Wikipedia, an introductory tutorial, and "getting started"
- A useful introductory video on editing: YouTube video – How to Edit Wikipedia – a 2018 tutorial (47:44)
- This includes
- How to create and set up your account (00:00)
- Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
- Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
- Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
- Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
- A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)
- This includes
- A shorter (20 min) introduction video on editing: YouTube video - Wikipedia Training in 20 minutes - April 2022 (22:29)
- A well presented and easy to understand Video and transcript for becoming a Wikipedian in 30 minutes - 2024 (31.37)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants contains advice on editing including advice on article structure
Other useful links
[edit]- Wikipedia core content policies
- List of Wikipedia guidelines
- Plagiarism information with regard to Wikipedia
- Conflict of interest with regard to Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Australia Indigenous knowledge sharing policy
- Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Vision and Mission
- Protecting Mātauranga Māori within an open knowledge platform by User:Worldsgreatestmum
- Video on how to create an account
- Video on how to edit Wikipedia - discusses using a template to avoid edit conflicts then shows editing
- Video on how to cite reference in Wikipedia including the citoid tool