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In the top right corner of any Wikipedia page there is a link to register an account.
Confirm that you are signed in --> Your Username should appear in the upper right hand corner.
Note to attendees: Decide if you want to have an anonymous identity on Wikipedia, or something more traceable. There are benefits to both, but this is up to you.
Note to attendees: Usernames are case sensitive.

Walk through the "Talk", "Read", "Edit", and "View History" sections of a Wikipedia page.
Note in the "Talk" tab: Talk pages are Wikipedia's version of peer review. More information: Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages
Note in the "View History" tab: Every page edit is publicly visible.
Note in the "View History" tab: Every page edit you make is traceable to your user account.

Using a demo article, make a simple textual edit or addition. Ask participants to follow along on your screen projection.

Click on the "Edit" tab of the article.
Write your name and a little bit about yourself.
Press "save" at the bottom of the page --> the first time you press save you will 'create' this page.
Try out making text bold, creating interwiki links, and external links and pressing save. Use the Cheatsheet for reference.

Create a time-stamped signature of your username by entering in four tildes in a row (~).
Ask participants to go to your Wikipedia event page for today's event and sign in under the "Participants" section.

Wikipedia citations are done in-line with the text, and are automatically aggregated as footnotes at the bottom of pages.
Citation templates are an easy way for beginners to begin inserting citations.

Insert a reference for the book Tom Sawyer using the Worldcat entry for this book: Twain, Mark, and Paul Geiger. 1985. The adventures of Tom Sawyer. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association.
Insert a reference using a citation template for this magazine article: Li, Shirley. "Roger Ebert's Wikipedia [Citation Needed]." The Atlantic. October 9, 2014. article link,

Demo: Instructor uses a Wikipedia article to demo adding in a reference to a live article.
All Participants: Find a page in your area of expertise that needs a citation and find a source text which will be added as a reference.

Adding to existing pages:

Do not copy-paste text from a website directly into Wikipedia. Paraphrasing and citation is necessary.
Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) .
Every image has a description page which indicates the license under which it is released or, if it is non-free, the rationale under which it is used.

Wikipedia:Neutral point of view---> conflicts of interest—if you think you have a COI, don’t create the article, post that someone else should create it on a related talk page.
Wikipedia:Verifiability and WP:No original research
Wikipedia:Notability

Post a question on the talk page of another Wikipedia User's talk page.
Ask a question to the Wikipedia Teahouse question board.
Resolving disputes; Wikipedia:Dispute resolution, Wikipedia:Etiquette, Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot.
Email <artandfeminismwikigmail.com> with specific Wikipedia editing questions if you can't find what you need on Wikipedia.

Images and Wikipedia, Image licenses and options
Creating a page, naming, list articles and other article formats, labelling it as a stub
What to do when an article is nominated for deletion
What happens if the page is flagged, responding to flags, removing flags once changes made
Talk pages / signatures
Wikiprojects and locating communities on Wikipedia
Infoboxes
Categories and other librarian fetishes
Creating an event page for your event