Wikipedia:Training/For students/Resources

 Wikipedia Training For students Menu     Resources

Getting 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 you 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 classmates posted, and you may be able to learn from the answers they got or answer their questions yourself.


 * 1) Go to your course page, click the “Discussion” tab, and post your question or request in a new section.  (Be sure to sign your post with four tildes — ~ — and enter an edit summary before you save it.)
 * 2) If you don't get a response within a day or two, ask your instructor.

Other problems

 * If you have conflicts with another editor that you don't want to post about publicly, try talking with your instructor or any experienced Wikipedians your class is working with.
 * For subject-specific questions related to your course, talk to your instructor(s), teaching assistants, and classmates.

Analyzing your 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 also 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 you've made over time, which types of pages you've edited, and which pages you've edited most.