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On this page, you will find a core set of instructional materials about Wikipedia. All materials presented here have been released under a free licence. We invite you to use and to share them free of charge and to make your own versions of them. See Bookshelf Project for more information about how to participate and a list of resources under active development.
[edit] For beginners
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Beginner | Welcome to Wikipedia is a reference guide to help you get started to contributing to Wikipedia. Using the guide, you will be able to create a Wikipedia user account, start editing, and communicate with other Wikipedia contributors. You will also learn how articles evolve on Wikipedia and how you can assess quality of an existing Wikipedia article. Welcome to Wikipedia consists 17 pages including a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup commands. | PDF (12 MB) |
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All | User Name (Medium) - This video shows some of Wikipedia's contributors, explaining their user names. | 49 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | |
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All | Nice People (Medium) - This video focuses on the motivations and passion of Wikipedians, and ends with a comment by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what makes the project special. | 1 m 26 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | |
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All | Edit Button- This video is a direct invitation by Wikipedians to "click that [edit] button and see what happens". | 1 m 6 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | |
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All | Great Feeling - In this video, Wikipedians talk about the joy of being part of a global community of editors. | 1 m 23 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | |
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Beginner | This one-page Wiki markup quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. | PDF (1 MB) | ||
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Beginners | Der Leitfaden für Wikipedianer und alle, die es werden wollen. Eine Einführung in Wikipedia, Schritt für Schritt. | No translations yet | ||
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All | Wikipedia ridotto - Wikimedia Italia presents Wikipedia for new contributors in Italian | 6 m 53 s | Subtitles in Italian, English, Spanish, French so far. Script in Italian. Please help translate. |
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| Welcome to Wikipedia brochure |
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Beginner | "Welcome to Wikipedia" gives you a basic introduction into contributing to Wikipedia. You will learn how to create a Wikipedia user account, how to start editing, and how to communicate with other contributors. You will also learn how articles evolve on Wikipedia and how to rate the quality of an existing article. The "Welcome to Wikipedia" brochure contains 17 pages and an additional quick reference that helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. | |
| Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia |
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Beginner | "Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia" is an editorial published in PLoS Computational Biology that gives advice for scientists (also relevant to other scholars and experts) on how to effectively contribute to Wikipedia. | |
| Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure |
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Beginner | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality is a reference guide with specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | |
| Introduction to free licenses pamphlet |
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Beginner | Introduction to free licenses helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses. It explains the idea of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". |
[edit] Editing references, instructions and guides
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| Editing reference sheet |
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Beginner | This one-page quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. | |
| How to get help handout |
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Beginner | This one-page handout explains the recommended way to get help and feedback for classes supported by Wikipedia Ambassadors: by posting on their course talk page and notifying their mentor. It also includes a glossary of additional help resources students might use. | |
| Citing sources handout |
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Intermediate | This handout explains why references are important, where to place them, and the basics of adding "ref" tags. | |
| Plagiarism handout |
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Intermediate | This handout explains what plagiarism is on Wikipedia in addition to why and how to avoid it. | |
| Moving out of your sandbox instructions |
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Intermediate | This handout walks through how to move an article draft from a userpage sandbox into Wikipedia | |
| File licensing tutorial |
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Beginner | This short handout explains why and how uploaded files (images) should be licensed. | SVG image |
| Referencing: WikiCode Handout |
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Beginner | This handout explains the basics of "ref" tags and the "name" parameter as well as "citation templates." | |
| Image uploading handout |
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Intermediate | This handout explains the basics of uploading an image on the English Wikipedia. | |
| Submitting an article to the Did You Know process instructions |
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Advanced | This handout walks through how to submit a new or newly expanded article to the Did You Know process so that it will appear on the Main Page. | |
| Visual explanation of the user contribution page |
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Beginner | Visual explanation of the user contribution page | SVG |
[edit] For intermediate learners
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Intermediate | This video explains two core principles of Wikipedia: Verifiability and Neutral point of view. | 2 m 10 s | ||
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All | The State of Wikipedia - In this video, Jimmy Wales tells the history of Wikipedia and talks about the project's 10th anniversary | 3 m 43 s | Transcript here | |
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Beginner | Introduction to free licenses helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses. It explains the idea of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". | PDF (1,3 MB) | Arabic – you can help |
[edit] For advanced learners
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Web and social media experts at cultural institutions | Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web: A Guide to Best Practices for Cultural and Educational Institutions is a detailed guideline that seeks to mobilize cultural and educational institutions to contribute to Wikimedia and other open web projects. It includes detailed how-to instructions for contributing video to Wikimedia projects. | PDF (3.3 MB) |
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Advanced Wikimedians/Wikipedians seeking to create instructional videos for new contributors | Screencasting - This video advocates for using screencasting as a tool for instructing new content contributors on our projects. Other videos, on this WikiProject page, go into more detail about how to produce a screencast with free or inexpensive software. | 5 m 15 s | Script |
[edit] About quality
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Beginner | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality is a reference guide with specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | PDF (547 KB) | Arabic – you can help |
[edit] For specific target groups
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University instructors | This sample syllabus provides a week-by-week breakdown of how professors might be able to incorporate Wikipedia assignments into their classes. | PDF (510 KB) | |
| Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool | Instructors | Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool is an online guide that will introduce the possibilities of using Wikipedia assignments as part of a school or university course. With Wikipedia you can:
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[edit] Classroom training slides
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| "Introduction to Wikipedia" Training Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training Facilitator Guide -- Module 1: Introduction to Wikipedia | [1] |
| "Introdução à Wikipédia" Training Slide Deck (pt) (Slides em português) |
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Embaixador | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training Facilitator Guide -- Módulo 1: Introdução à Wikipédia | [2] |
| "Introduction to Wikipedia" Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador slide deck -- Module 1: Introduction to Wikipedia | [3] |
| "Introdução à Wikipédia" Slide Deck (pt) (Slides em português) |
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Embaixador | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador slide deck -- Módulo 1: Introdução à Wikipédia | [4] |
| "Wikipedia Literacy" Training Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training Facilitator Guide -- Module 2: Wikipedia Literacy | [5] |
| "Wikipedia Literacy" Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador slide deck -- Module 2: Wikipedia Literacy | [6] |
| "Competência em Wikipédia" Slide Deck (pt) (Slides em português) |
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Embaixadores | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador slide deck -- Módulo 2: Competência em Wikipédia | [7] |
| "Wikipedia Essentials" Training Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training Facilitator Guide -- Module 3: Wikipedia Essentials | [8] |
| "Wikipedia Essentials" Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training slide deck -- Module 3: Wikipedia Essentials | [9] |
| "O essencial da Wikipédia" Slide Deck (pt) (Slides em português) |
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Embaixadores | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training slide deck -- Módulo 3: O essencial da Wikipédia | [10] |
| "Working on Wikipedia" Training Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training Facilitator Guide -- Module 4: Working on Wikipedia | [11] |
| "Working on Wikipedia" Slide Deck |
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Ambassadors | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training slide deck -- Module 4: Working on Wikipedia | [12] |
| "Colaborando na Wikipédia" Slide Deck (pt) (Slides em português) |
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Embaixadores | Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training slide deck -- Módulo 4: Colaborando na Wikipédia | [13] |
[edit] Course and assignment design / plano de disciplinas e tarefas (pt)
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| Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool | Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool is an online guide that will introduce the possibilities of using Wikipedia assignments as part of a school or university course. With Wikipedia you can:
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| Wikipédia como Ferramenta de Aprendizagem | Wikipédia como Ferramenta de Aprendizagem é um guia online que vai te mostrar as possibilidades de utilizar a Wikipédia como parte das disciplinas universitárias. Com a Wikipédia você pode:
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| Sample syllabus |
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This sample syllabus for a university course is an example of how a Wikipedia assignment for a class supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program can be structured. It incorporates many elements that have been shown to work well in previous assignments, and ties in to other resources such as handouts listed on this page. | |
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Este exemplo de programa para um curso universitário é um exemplo de como a Wikipédia pode ser usada em sala de aula. Ele incorpora vários elementos que se mostraram eficazes e está ligado a outros materiais como brochuras e manuais listados nesta página. | |
| Teaching with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation wikis | This is a presentation by Wikipedian Piotr Konieczny, delivered at WikiSym 2010, with general advice for teaching with Wikipedia based on his experience designing and running Wikipedia assignments over multiple terms prior to the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. | ODP |
[edit] Assignments and exercises
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| Creating a userpage handout Create an account and a user page - alt version |
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Beginner | This is an illustrated walk-through of how to create a userpage. | |
| Early Wikipedia assignment 1a Early Wikipedia assignment 1b - an alt version |
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Beginner | Those short assignments asks students to create user accounts and edit their userpages. | PDF |
| Early Wikipedia assignment 2 |
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Beginner | This short assignment asks students to create userpages, improve the clarity of a sentence in an article, upload an image, add a reference to an article, and select a mentor. | |
| DYK Sourcing Assignment |
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Beginner | This assignment asks students to assess the sources in a DYK article. It can be adapted to require participation on the talk page of the article. | |
| DYK Copyediting Assignment |
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Intermediate | This assignment asks students to copyedit a DYK article. | |
| Encyclopedia comparison assignment |
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Beginner | This assignment asks students to compare and contrast a Wikipedia article on an author with another encyclopedia's entry. It can easily be adapted for another discipline. It requires no knowledge of wikicode. |
[edit] Videos
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Account creation tutorial (2 min 35 sec)
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Explanation of Verifiablity and Neutral Point of View (2 min 10 sec)
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Starting a sandbox article tutorial (2 min 11 sec)
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Basic editing: bold and links (3 min 37 sec)
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Basic editing: citing sources, part 1 (2 min 3 sec)
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Article creation tutorial (7 min 50 sec)
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WikiProject U.S. Public Policy assessment tutorial (6 min 47 sec)
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Copyright licenses involved in uploading files (3 min 28 sec)
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HotCat and categories explanation (5 min 43 sec)
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How to use a watchlist (2 min 10 sec)
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Quick account creation walkthrough
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How to log in
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Quick starting a sandbox walkthrough
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Quick sandbox article test, with a reference
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How to use talk pages
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How to add an image
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Article improvement
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Article assessments (general, not WikiProject United States Public Policy)
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Article evolution
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How to use talk pages
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How to use the RefTools gadget for inserting references
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Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons, using the upload wizard (2 min 48 sec)
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Wikisource (6 min 44 sec)
[edit] Interactive lessons
These are interactive lessons that ambassadors (and others) can use when working with newcomers one on one to explore the basics of Wikipedia.
[edit] Classroom lessons and discussion plans
- Discussion 1 - Introducing students to Wikipedia, answering questions, and fostering excitement
- Discussion 2 - Introducing students to Wikipedia in a computer lab (1 - 1.5 hours)
[edit] Online chat lessons
- Lesson 1 - Creating an account, creating a subpage, using talk pages
- Lesson 2 - Basic markup, article structure, and citation formatting and norms
[edit] Learning tasks
- Article tagging - Explore the structure of Wikipedia in a topic area by identifying and tagging articles related to a WikiProject
[edit] On-wiki tutorials
- Wikipedia:Tutorial - General introduction to Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Article wizard - Walkthrough of the requirements for articles, including notability and sources
- Wikipedia:Picture tutorial - Explains how to insert pictures into Wikipedia articles using wikitext
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials (advanced) - advice about advanced image editing
[edit] Templates
[edit] User Template with a sandbox link
[edit] For marking student articles
- Template:WAP assignment - Generic assignment template for courses working with the ambassador program.
- Template:New user article - for marking new articles soon after they are created, to give students a chance to figure things out before other editors swoop in and bite them.
[edit] For welcoming students
- Template:Ambassador welcome - a streamlined, not USPP-specific ambassador welcome message. Be sure to substitute it: {{subst:Ambassador welcome}}.
- Template:WAP student - This is for putting on students' userpages (or talk pages). It provides links to the course page, course talk page, mentor contact links, and an IRC link. See documentation for details on usage.
[edit] Tools
- List of articles edited by Public Policy Initiative participants
- Public Policy Initiative Student-O-Meter
[edit] See also
[edit] Guidelines and best practices
- Online Ambassador guidelines
- Assignments advice - Best practices and advice for the different aspects of running a Wikipedia assignment
- Guide to IRC for ambassadors
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- image upload video
- adding references video
