Mhorney

About this page in Wikipedia

This is a page I have created to help my students learn more about wikis in general and Wikipedia specifically. My students will get Wikipedia accounts of their own, and practice the editing process using their own User pages.Mhorney (talk) 21:20, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Useful Wikipedia Links

The Wikipedia top page: Main Page

This page, the User page for Mark Horney: User:Mhorney#top

Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines: Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines

Wikipedia Rules: Simplified_Ruleset

Bad ideas: Wikipedia:List_of_bad_article_ideas

Guidelines for topics to avoid: Wikipedia:NFT

How articles are removed: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion

Guidelines for Notability: WP:Notability

Creating a new article: Wikipedia:Your_first_article

Editing existing pages: Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

Initial Tasks

1. Create an account on Wikipedia.
2. Familiarize yourself with with the general guidelines for operating Wikipedia as described in the pages listed above.
3. Familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia markup language using to format pages.
4. Locate five Wikipedia articles about which you have enough knowledge to edit or expand on.
5. Create links to those articles on your User page.Write a description of your expertise in those areas.
6. Post a link to your Wikipedia User page on the Wikipedia forum on Blackboard.