Wikipedia:Training/For educators/Resources

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Places for general Wikipedia help
For most kinds of help on Wikipedia—technical questions; policies and guidelines; etiquette; conflicts with editors; feedback and reviews of your work—the first place your students should turn is the "Discussion" tab of your course page. On the course talk page, you can also see what questions and requests for feedback your class has posted, and you may be able to learn from the answers they got or answer their questions yourself. You and your students have a number of other options as well.

Other problems

 * If you have conflicts with another editor that you don't want to post about publicly, try talking with any experienced Wikipedians your class is working with.

Places for help with course-related issues
The main place to go for help with course-specific problems that is the Education noticeboard.

Analyzing student contributions

 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics – a tool for charting how many hits any given article gets, great for comparing different kinds of articles at different times, e.g., Genetics (in the school year) vs. (in the summer), or YouTube (with weekend spikes) and Simpsons (with spikes when new episodes come out). Students can use it to see how many people are reading their articles over the course of the class (and beyond).
 * Edit counter – a tool for charting how many edits users make over time, which types of pages they've edited, and which pages they've edited most.