Wikipedia:Meetup/Vancouver/Indigenous Literature/Resources

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Below you will find more training materials, online research tools, and other related Wikipedia projects to help you dive further into the Wikimedia community.

Search template
A comprehensive search template can be added to the talk page of any article related to Indigenous Literature topics by pasting the following template code at the top of the article's talk page:, which stands for Friendly search suggestions. This template will also search for free, appropriately-licensed images. It looks like this:

More Wikipedia Editing Tutorials

 * Visual Editor User Guide
 * Wikipedia cheat sheet (Bookshelf), another markup cheatsheet
 * Training for students, a tutorial for beginners
 * Beginners' guide to Wikipedia (account creation, article editing)
 * Five pillars of Wikipedia, philosophical guidelines and best practices for editing
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * Wiki markup quick reference, PDF version of printed handout
 * Guide to Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing by Susan H. Rodger (applicable to any biography)
 * Article development
 * Your first article (using the Article Wizard, if you wish)
 * manual of style
 * Citation templates
 * Infobox templates
 * Bookshelf, additional "getting started" resources
 * Writing about women
 * Biographies of Living Persons
 * FAQ on Conflict of Interest Editing
 * FAQ on paid contributions without disclosure

Research Resources

 * TBD

Journal access

 * You can use Worldcat free to get citations in MLA, Chicago, and other bibliographic formats.
 * The Wikipedia Library Journals Project works to grant Wikipedians access to databases to help with their Wikipedia work, and reference work, and for general knowledge. You can request an account on the project pages but must do so in advance. Some journals, such as JSTOR, require editors to have at least 1 year and 1000 edits worth of experience.

Related Wikipedia projects

 * Indigenous Peoples of North American
 * Indigenous Peoples of North American - Anishinabee