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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.
Welcome
The Core
- 1: Introduction to Wikipedia's Core Policies and Guidelines
- 2: Guiding principles
- 3: Wikipedia’s Five Pillars
- 4: Pillar 1
- 5: Pillar 2
- 6: Pillar 3
- 7: Pillar 4
- 8: Pillar 5
- 9: Verifiability
- 10: Notability
- 11: General notability guideline
- 12: No original research
- 13: Copyright and plagiarism
- 14: Copyright dialogue
- 15: Want to know more about Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines?
Editing
- 1: Editing Wikipedia
- 2: Editing topics
- 3: Getting started
- 4: Basic tasks
- 5: Creating an account
- 6: Working in a sandbox
- 7: Sandbox started
- 8: Text editing: '''boldness''' and [[links]]
- 9: Citing your sources
- 10:Citing sources 2
- 11: How do I use talk pages?
- 12: How to use a sandbox for existing articles
- 13: How to use a sandbox for stub articles
- 14: How to use a sandbox for new articles
- 15: My watchlist and how to use it
- 16: My watchlist 2
- 17: The Wikipedia Community
- 18: Decision-making by consensus
- 19: The Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle
- 20: Tips for effective discussion
- 21: Where to get help
Advanced
- 1: Advanced editing topics
- 2: Choosing articles
- 3: Choosing articles 2
- 4: Choosing articles 3
- 5: Choosing articles 4
- 6: The "Did you know" process
- 7: More about DYK
- 8: The perfect article
- 9: From stub to Featured article
- 10: Article grading scheme
- 11: Adding images and other media
- 12:Barnstars and other WikiLove
- 13:Specialized help pages