Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Hull/Interaction, Experience and Engagement (Spring 2013)/Timeline

Preliminaries

 * Registering
 * The user page (I'll show you mine if you show me yours!)
 * Basic wikitext (see PDF handout)
 * Selecting a page to create/edit (+ Notability)
 * Sandbox
 * to link to anyone's sandbox:  INSERT ACTUAL USER NAME HERE 


 * Using the Watchlist
 * View History
 * Simplified Help

Preparing your first public contribution

 * Talk pages (meeting other wikipedians)
 * Communicating with other Wikipedians (using Template:Talkback)
 * Preliminary work on your contributions (ask a question at the Teahouse)
 * Remember that this is an (see below)

Preparing for the next session

 * 1) Find at least one primary source and at least one secondary source about the subject you're working on.
 * 2) Bring the two (or more) sources with you to the lab.
 * 3) Make sure you've written an appropriate topic sentence (as outlined at LEAD) to appear as the very first thing you're going to upload about your subject, possibly as a
 * 4) Think about what else you want to include on your User Page aside from what you've already written there.
 * 5) Work on your User Page so it's clear that you've done more on it that we did together during the first workshop
 * 6) Prepare one or two short paragraphs about your subject
 * 7) Prepare a question for the Tea House and feel free to submit it ahead of the second workshop so that you can share the experience with the rest of us in the lab.

Managing and enhancing your contributions

 * Devising a strategy for your article (i.e. establishing Notability) - are there any pages that (should) link to your article? Do they?
 * Verifiability
 * Citation/References (see PDF handout)
 * Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books

Improving an article

 * Manual_of_Style
 * How to assess an article and improve it (4:22 video)
 * Constructive editing (see also Articles_for_creation)
 * Living with other wikipedians

Refining your contribution

 * Cross-linking
 * Use of categories
 * Uploading Images to Wikipedia

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