Wikipedia:FILE Editathon - July 2023/Help

Creating a user account
In order to participate in this activity you must have a user account on Wikipedia. You may Click here.

The video on the right may be helpfull.

Wikipedia's Principles
Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but it's important to know the the five fundamental principles, the Code of Conduct and, as this is an activity supported by Wiki Movimento Brasil, the Friendly Space Policy.

When writing article content for Wikipedia, some points should be considered. The writing should always maintain a neutral point of view, cover only subjects and people for which reliable and verifiable sources of information exist, and not include personal or unpublished research. So provide references.

Do not copy-paste or closely paraphrase material from sources. Rather, summarize what the source says in your own words.

Before writing an article, check the naming convention and be especially careful about creating and editing biographies of living people. For a given topic to have the notoriety to become an article it must have wide coverage by several reliable, independent and verifiable sources.



Practicing the edition
After these first steps, now it's time for practicing your editing skills.

Start by creating and editing on your test page. As shown in the video here beside.

At the main page you will find all the help you need to edit the Wikipedia: click here.



Adding images
All the material used for the Wikipedia' articles must be available at Wikimedia Commons under a free license. This repository contains about 90 million files that can be used freely. If you want to use your own image you should upload it to Wikimedia Commons. The step by step instructions on how to upload images are in the video on the right and more information can be found here.

To upload a media file, click here.