Wikipedia:Meetup/World Soil Day 2017 Edit-a-thon/Wiki Basics

New to Wikipeida? The following are a curated list of resources to help you get started!

Wikipedia Overview

 * Wikipedia: Plain and Simple
 * Wikipedia: Five Pillars
 * What Wikipedia is Not: a good general guide to start.

Guidelines and Policy

 * Core Content Policies
 * Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines: how to ensure that what you write is verifiable by readers.

Editing Support

 * General Wikipedia Editing
 * 10 Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

Printable Guides

 * Editing Wikipedia Guide for Student Editors (Note: If you are not using WikiEdu, pgs 4-6 will be most relevant to you)
 * Illustrating Wikipedia
 * Evaluating Wikipedia
 * Other resources for students - including subject specific handouts.

Drafts and Publishing

 * Wikipedia Drafts
 * Moving out of your Sandbox: Creating an Article

Stubs

 * Wikipedia Stubs: explains what stubs are.
 * Stubs for development/expansion

Tools

 * Citation Hunt
 * Duplication Detector