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Getting Started guides

This is the very first page that Wikipedia recommends for complete newcomers to explore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started

Editing a page beginners guide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_a_Wikipedia_Page_-_Beginners_guide.pdf

What do all the menu options and buttons on wikipedia do? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:What%27s_Where_on_Wiki.pdf

A guide for all things editing by the Wellcome collection wikimedian in residence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing#How_can_I_add_pictures_to_pages?

Notability (deciding who 'deserves' their own page)

Not everyone who contributed photographs to the Conway Library will be considered 'notable' by the Wikipedia community. See these guides for what constitutes a notable academic, and on notability in general. Of course, some of the criteria serve as barriers especially for women and PoC, so it is up to us to pull together the evidence from around the internet and put our case forward! You might find that a page you create or edits you make are challenged, so be prepared to state your case (and ask for help from fellow Conway Library project members if you're not sure what to do).

Style guidance

Editorial guidance to consider when writing about women.

Wikipedia has useful guidance for writing biographies about living people.

Citation tool for generating references from Google Books http://reftag.appspot.com/

PDF of 'Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia', by Joseph Michael Reagle. See especially the Chapter 'Nazis and Norms'

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  A guide to editing Wikipedia
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  A guide to adding files to Wikimedia Commons
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  A cheat sheet to get started with wikicode

Training videos on YouTube

Getting started with a Sandbox

• Some sandbox tips - including how to add citations and make font/ format changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNMY0wm0X6s&feature=youtu.be

Editing an existing page

• How to edit an existing page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHp1t-K1FPg
• How to add categories (this can only be done on a published page, not in a sandbox or draft) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARRQrxuCtDY

Making a page

• How to add links to other Wikipedia pages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbnhW7bxcM&feature=youtu.be

• How to add linked ISBN numbers to your article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rroBa5WUOBU&t=8s

• How to add an infobox to your page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbky7SRYgLE

• How to add an image to a page (not in an infobox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygavxLMzETk. Before you do this step, you should upload an image to wikimedia commons using the upload wizard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard The wizard will walk you through step by step, just be in touch if you run into trouble!

Submitting for review

• How to submit your draft for review from your sandbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-q7Lm4XwM

• How to resubmit if a page has been declined (and you've made the suggested improvements) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpVBsGDh49A&t

Making more pages

• How to make a second sandbox (if you want to make another article while you wait for a first submission to be reviewed... or want multiple drafts on the go) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfg91bfBPYI

• How to remove a redirect link from your sandbox (usually happens after you've had a page approved) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMznQrb4p74

Turn a Redlink blue (bypass Articles For Creation - only available to experienced editors)

How to turn a Redlink blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7i7iIc4Pk