User:Joegrohens/Wikipedia Elements and Guidelines

Wikipedia: Elements, Guidelines, Procedures

Guidelines

• <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article" target="_blank">Your first article</a>

Images

Wikipedia Instructions

• <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images" target="_blank">Wikipedia guidelines and procedures</a>
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Uploading_images
  

Finding Images

• <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_images_by_subject" target="_blank">On Wikipedia</a>
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_images_by_subject

▪ On <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>

▪ Using <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Google</a> search for images in "public domain" or with "creative commons" licenses

image:term "public domain" or "creative commons"

▪ <a href="http://flickr.com" target="_blank">flickr.com </a>

Elements of a Wikipedia Page

• Lead Paragraph
• Sections
• Info Box (e.g., sidebar, footer bar)
• References
• Links - internal and external

References

• See "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" target="_blank">Citing Sources</a>" in Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources

• Using "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" target="_blank">Citation Templates</a>"
• Using freehand citations.
• <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates" target="_blank">Comparison of methods</a>

Boxes

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Standard_boxes" target="_blank">Standard Boxes</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox">Info Boxes</a>

Example Pages

wikipedia page examples

. a biogrphy page (athlete zidane, ronaldhino, musician, tycoon carnegie, president)

. a technical page (chemistry compound, device, theory, mp3)

. a business (toyota scio)

. a social phenomenon : skateboarding, vloging, viral video