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Welcome to Wikipedia

Summing our knowledge with editing & other tasks

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Wikipedia

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A Global Resource

  • Always growing & always changing
  • 10 edits per second
  • 1000 new articles per day

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Five Pillars

Wikipedia Details

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  • Created and refined entirely by volunteers
  • Run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation
  • All edits/versions are recorded indefinitely
  • 4 million+ articles, 285 languages

WIKIPEDIA

The Free Encyclopedia

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The Five Pillars of Wikipedia

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  • Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.
  • Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view.
  • Wikipedia is free content that anyone can edit, use, modify, and distribute.
  • Editors should interact with each other in a respectful and civil manner.
  • Wikipedia does not have firm rules.

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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars)

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Core Wikipedia Principles

  • Maintain a neutral point of view (NPOV)

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  • Use verifiable, reliable sources and cite them correctly

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  • Do not use “original research” (unpublished data, opinions, speculation)

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  • Assume good faith and behave in a civil manner towards other editors

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  • Avoid conflict of interests (editing content about yourself, your boss, editing to
  • promote activities or interests)

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Many Hands, Many Tasks, Important Work

What Can You Do to Build Wikipedia?

  • Create Articles
  • Add links
  • Add References
  • Proofread & other copy work
  • Add Images
  • BE BOLD

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Let’s Get Started: Resources

An Overview From SAAM: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Intro_to_Wikipedia_-_American_Art.pdf

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Visual Editor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_started#Editing_with_Visual_Editor

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Training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/Newcomers

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Add Categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat

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Add References: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref

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Got the bug?

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