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Content: This deck covers the basics of Wikipedia editing in three parts: Basics, Improve Old Stuff, Write New Stuff
Usage: DIY learning and/or Edit-A-Thons
License: You may freely share or adapt the material for non-commercial use under the following license: CC BY-SA 4.0

Content: A series of exercises (Visual Editor) for practising basic Wikipedia edits, including formatting, linking, citing, and adding an infobox.
Usage: DIY learning, teaching, and/or Edit-A-Thons. You may also remix the exercises in your sandbox to suit your instruction needs.

Content: Cheatsheets adapted from Wikipedia:Manual of Style.
Usage: DIY learning, teaching, and/or Edit-A-Thons. The checklist is open to edits, as necessary.

Content: A basic overview and cheatsheet on Wiki markup (language for Source Editor) broken out by task. Covers formatting, linking, talk page communication, and common documentation tools.
Usage: DIY learning and teaching. Reference to edit "back-end pages" which do not enable use of Visual Editor, including some Wikipedia Wikiproject pages and all Wikidata user + Wikiproject pages.

Content: A series of exercises for practising basic Wiki markup functions, including formatting, linking, discussion replies, and templates.
Usage: DIY learning and teaching. You may also remix the exercises in your sandbox to suit your instruction needs.

Content: An accessible, bullet-form introduction to Wikipedia editing suitable for events and projects. It can be transcluded to an event or Wikiproject page.
Example: How to edit section in the Editing tab is transcluded.
Usage: To transclude (=reproduce), insert {{WP:UTL/ET}} where appropriate in the intended page. It is advisable to append the code directly below the preceding paragraph. A line break is inserted above the transcluded section by default.

Content: A template that makes Wikipedia meetup event page creation easy.
Example: The template can be used to develop event pages like Black Histories Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon (February 2021).
Usage: Insert {{subst:Event docs}} on a page to produce an editable event page. Refer to template documentation for detailed guidance.

Content: A wikidata-aware template that makes it easy to find archival records associated with a topic.
Example: Roxana Ng#External links
Usage: Add this template to the top of the External links section of a page to produce a box displaying archival information. The template can both pull in information from Wikidata and display locally entered information. Refer to template documentation for detailed guidance.