WIKI ACTIVATE FOR SDG GOAL 13

PROGRAMME LEAD:

DIKE CHUKWUMA

WIKIMEDIA

WIKIMEDIA

AT THE END OF THE TRAINING

• What Wikipedia is and how it works
• How to navigate Wikipedia
• How you can contribute to Wikipedia and why you should
• Important rules that keep Wikipedia reliable
• How to edit Wikipedia with the Visual Editor and using wiki markup
• A step-by-step guide to adding content

WHAT IS WIKIPEDIA

• Wikipedia — the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit —is one of the largest collaborative projects in history. With millions of articles and in hundreds of languages, Wikipedia is read by hundreds of millions of people on a regular basis.

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• Wikipedia relies on contributors like you to keep information current, expand short “stub” articles, and create new articles on topics not already covered in your language Wikipedia.
• When you make an edit to Wikipedia, you’re joining a community of hundreds of thousands of people “Wikipedians” — who have freely contributed their knowledge to Wikipedia.

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THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF WIKIPEDIA MAY BE SUMMARIZED IN FIVE "PILLARS"

• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
• Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
• Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute
• Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility
• Wikipedia has no firm rules

How to navigate Wikipedia

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Home Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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• As you get started, it’s helpful to familiarize yourself with the interface and how to navigate Wikipedia pages.
• Wikipedia has one of the best User friendly pages

How you prepare to edit Wikipedia articles

Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but there are some basic rules. Here are some of

the most important ones to follow as you start editing:

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• Everything on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view.
• Reliable Sources: Information in Wikipedia needs to be verifiable, based on reliable published sources!! (If you dont adhere to it your article wont fly or be published)
• Reliable sources:
• books published,
• journals,
• international newspapers (some local as well)
• Credible Website (Not blogs)

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• No Original Research: Wikipedia is not a place to publish original ideas, nope it is not. Rather you should summarize what others have published in reliable sources about the topic
• Conflict of Interest: If you have a conflict of interest about a particular topic you should avoid editing articles about it
• Copyright and Plagiarism: Since all contributions are freely liciensed, no editor owns any article, all of your contributions can and will be edited and redistributed
• You can not use what you see from Facebook, twitter or instagram or blog posts

How to Edit and Create a Wikipedia Article

Since you're here, you probably have a Wikipedia account already if not Create one

Here are they sub topics we will look into today:

• Editing Articles
• Starting on a sandbox page
• Creating links
• Citation

Editing Articles

Wikipedia gives you two options for editing

• Visual Editor and Wikicode
• The "Edit" option opens Visual Editor, which lets you edit the text on the screen just as it appears on the page.
• The "Edit source" option lets you edit with wikitext code.

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Visual Editor

• Visual Editor makes it easy to add text, cite sources, create links, and do basic formatting.
• With Visual Editor, you can see what your changes will look like as you edit, so you can focus on the content.

Steps on How to add content or Edit a Wikipedia Article�

• Step 1: Pick a topic or article you want to write /edit more about.
• Step 2: Find a reliable source that covers the topic better than the current Wikipedia article.
• Citation is a core part of Wikipedia

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• Step 3: Now Click the Edit button
• Step 4: Add some of what is missing. Using the source you’ve found, summarize the information you want to add in your own words.
• Step 5: At the end of your new block of text, add a reference.
• Step 6: In the ‘edit summary’ field, add a brief description of what you’ve done in your edit.

* With VisualEditor, you’ll be prompted for an edit summary after you click Publish page.) The edit summary helps other editors understand what you are doing.

• Step 7: Now it’s time to Publish your changes. Be sure to click Publish page.

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SANDBOX

• A "sandbox" is your personal wiki page where you can practice editing, plan out articles, draft articles, or just experiment. Without impacting the article "mainspace” on Wikipedia

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• People can still see your sandbox, so it's important that the content you put there isn't something you don't want people to see.

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• if you want to write out a draft or play with formatting, the sandbox is a great place to do it.

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THANK YOU