User:Ejeann/sandbox

Paragraph: Set the style of your text. For example, make a header or plain paragraph text. You can also use it to offset block quotes.

A : Highlight your text, then click here to format it with bold, italics, etc. The “More” options allows you to underline (U), cross-out text ( S ), add code snippets ( { } ), change language keyboards (Aあ), and clear all formatting.

Links: Highlight text and push this button to make it a link. The Visual Editor will automatically suggest related Wikipedia articles for that word or phrase. This is a great way to connect your article to more Wikipedia content. You only have to link important words once, usually during the first time they appear. If you want to link to pages outside of Wikipedia (for an “external links” section, for example) click on the “External link” tab.

Cite: The citation tool in the Visual Editor helps format your citations. You can simply paste a DOI or URL, and the Visual Editor will try to sort out all of the fields you need. Be sure to review it, however, and apply missing fields manually (if you know them). You can also add books, journals, news, and websites manually. That opens up a quick guide for inputting your citations. Once you've added a source, you can click the “re-use” tab to cite it again.

Bullets: To add bullet points or a numbered list, click here.

Insert: This tab lets you add media, images, or tables.

Ω: This tab allows you to add special characters, such as those found in non-English words, scientific notation, and a handful of language extensions.

Once you're done making an edit, leave an edit summary about what you did. For example, if you added a citation, you would write “added citation,” followed by a reason. For smaller edits you copyedited or grammatical mistakes you fixed, you can write “copyedited”. These short descriptions help other editors make sense of your edits

The Wikicode for bold text is like this:

= bold

Creating a wikilink (that is, a link to another article on Wikipedia) looks like this:

= bold

Open up the page just as you would open up an article to edit. Underneath the comment you're responding to, type a colon. Each : will indent your response deeper into the conversation. So if you respond to a response, use two colons, etc.

It is crucial that you sign your messages with four tildes to automatically mark it with your username and a timestamp.

When you're ready to make edits:


 * 1) Open the article you want to change in Edit mode. (References and other templates will break if you copy from Read mode.)
 * 2) Select the portion you want to work on — a few paragraphs at most — and copy it.
 * 3) Open your sandbox in Edit mode and paste the copied article content.
 * 4) Add an edit summary that says copied from   with the name of the original article, then save it by clicking Publish changes.
 * 5) Re-enter Edit mode in your sandbox, make your changes, and publish them.
 * 6) Format your additions in bold to make it easy to differentiate your work from the existing content. (You'll need to remove this formatting when you move your changes back into the live article later on.)

Openverse. Openverse is a search engine for content specifically filtered to match the types of licenses you’re looking for.

https://openverse.org/

in the search bar, click "All content" and change it to "Images". Then, type the topic of your search into the search box just like you would with any search engine. Click "Search".

When results appear, click "Filters" in the upper righthand corner. You MUST click the two boxes "Use commercially" and "Modify or adapt". If you do not click those two boxes, you may NOT be able to use the images you find through this search on Wikipedia.

When you find an image, make a note. We'll show you later on how to add that image to Wikimedia Commons, so you can include it in your Wikipedia article.

If you find an image through Openverse
Download the image, make a note of the author, and a link to the original source.


 * Select "This file is not my own work" when you begin your image upload.
 * Give the name of the source of the image (a direct link is preferred).
 * Name the original creator of the image (this can be an agency or organization).
 * Beneath that, carefully select the source of the image from the options provided, and select the license that matches the way the image is shared.

= How do I add an image to Wikipedia? = Once you've found or uploaded a useful image to Commons, you can attach it to a relevant Wikipedia article.


 * 1) Go to the article you want to add your image to.
 * 2) Click "Edit" in the section where you'd like to add your image.
 * 3) When the bar at the top of the page opens, click on the "Insert" tab, and select "Media" from the drop-down menu.
 * 4) Type in your file name. Wikipedia will run a search for that keyword and file name, and show you everything it finds in Commons.
 * 5) Find your image (or any image you want to use). Click on it.
 * 6) You'll see image details. Click the blue "Use this image" button to insert the image into the article.
 * 7) You'll be asked to enter a caption for the image. You can also click on "advanced settings" to access formatting options.
 * 8) * Usually, a photo will go to the right of the article, at about 220 pixels wide.
 * 9) "Insert" the image. You'll see how it will appear in the page.
 * 10) If that's alright, click the blue "Publish changes" button at the top right.