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The basics. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written by volunteers to help people gain useful knowledge. Our encyclopedia is pretty comprehensive, but that does not mean we would cover every single topic that exists. Wikipedia is not a social media, a place for promotion or advocacy, nor a place to announce new unpublished theories.
Invitation to the Writing Wikipedia Articles course. Writing Wikipedia Articles is a free online course conducted right here on Wikipedia! Our last session was on Monday, February 13, 2017. We have run the course four times, starting in 2013. If you can read Wikipedia, you can help build it!
Hello, students! This page is a quick guide to working on Wikipedia for people here as part of school and university projects . Hopefully, if you're here with an organized project, you'll know what you're intended to do - whether that be creating a new article on a personal topic, or editing a specific one. However, Wikipedia is an open project ...
This page in a nutshell: When students edit Wikipedia as part of an assignment, it should improve Wikipedia – without any serious violations of content norms. This page contains advice to all parties involved. This is an overview page of best practices and advice concerning student assignments .
WP:UMD. Phrases such as refers to, is the name of, describes, or is a term for are sometimes used inappropriately in the first sentence of Wikipedia articles. For the vast majority of articles, the introduction is using a term, rather than mentioning it. This is known as the use–mention distinction .
Method 1: searching. Enter text in the search field that you seek to create as a page title. If the title you entered does not already exist, is not technically restricted and is not creation protected, the resulting page will i) tell you that it does not exist; ii) advise that you can create the page, and iii) will provide a red link to the ...
e.g. The Judd School (often known simply as Judd) is a voluntary aided grammar school in Tonbridge, Kent, England. or Stuyvesant High School (pronounced / ˈstaɪvɪsənt /) commonly referred to as Stuy (pronounced / staɪ /) is a public magnet, specialized high school in New York City, United States.
a free six week course. Writing Wikipedia Articles holds online class sessions once a week, for 2.5 hours. (Tuesday evening in the Americas; Wednesday morning in Australia/Asia.) These will start with a one-hour lecture, including questions; then, after a short break, students will work on assignments. We will keep the session live, so that ...