Wikipedia:Training/For students

  Wikipedia Training  

  For students  

         

Menu

      Resources

This orientation for students editing Wikipedia as a class assignment consists of four main modules:

• Welcome, a short introduction;
• The Core, an overview of Wikipedia's core principles;
• Editing, a tutorial on the basic mechanics of editing pages and communicating with others; and
• Advanced, some selected advanced topics to help you get off to a good start with your first article.

In total, the four modules should take about one hour to complete.

Start the training.

  Welcome  

• 1: Welcome to Wikipedia
• 2: About this orientation…
• 3: Navigating this orientation
• 4: Let's begin…

  The Core  

• 1: Introduction to Wikipedia's Core Policies and Guidelines

• 3: Wikipedia’s Five Pillars

• 9: Verifiability
• 10: Notability

• 12: No original research
• 13: Copyright and plagiarism
• 14: Want to know more about Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines?

  Editing  

• 1: Editing Wikipedia

• 3: Getting started

• 6: [edit source] vs. [edit ^beta]
• 7: Working in a sandbox

• 9: Text editing: '''boldness''' and [[links]]
• 10: Citing your sources
• 11: Citing sources tutorial

• 13: How do I use talk pages?
• 14: How to use a sandbox for existing articles
• 15: How to use a sandbox for stub articles
• 16: How to use a sandbox for new articles
• 17: My watchlist and how to use it

• 19: The Wikipedia Community
• 20: Decision-making by consensus
• 21: The Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle
• 22: Tips for effective discussion
• 23: Where to get help

  Advanced  

• 1: Advanced editing topics
• 2: Choosing articles

• 6: The "Did you know" process

• 8: The perfect article
• 9: From stub to Featured article

• 11: Adding images and other media
• 12:Barnstars and other WikiLove
• 13:Specialized help pages

  Background  

• 1: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia (video)
• 2: Why Wikipedians are Weird (video)