Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Hull/Psychology of Internet Behaviour (Spring 2013)

Testing ds 09:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Just some tips
Hey everyone, because I've already done a similar assignment for IEE, I just thought I'd give everyone a few tips to help them with the clunky interface of Wikipedia, hopefully you'll find them useful!

Use the watchlist to keep track of talk pages and articles that you use the most. This is especially useful to keep track of the talk pages of the members of your group and can help get around the trouble of talk backs. To add a page to your watch list, click the star icon at the top right of the page you want to watch or when leaving a message on a user's talkpage or editing an article, there is a check box option under the editing space that lets you watch the page. Any change made to the talk page will then appear on your watchlist at the top right of the wikipedia page.

A second useful tip is to add a brief description to all your edits so that other group members can see what you've changed without having to trawl through the article. This is done in a small summary text bar just under the editing area.

Talkbacks are proving to be quite confusing to a few people. The talkback template is just a way to notify another user that you have replied to a thread on a talk page that is not their own (normally it's used to notify them on a thread on your own talkpage). You do not put the reply within the template itself, it's literally just to notify another user of a reply.

A user called Geniac may have already contacted some of you, he is a very useful editor to talk to and helped a lot of people in the IEE module. He knows a lot about Wikipedia and really goes out of the way to give feedback to students.

Finally, here are some useful links that will help you create your articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIZARD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notability

Finally, stick to the 5 pillars. Experienced editors will jump on you if you do something that goes against them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

Hopefully these will help! --Tomswainson (talk) 18:53, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Just an extra note, when you reply to someone on a talk page use a colon before starting your message. This indents the message and makes it easier to read the thread as you can clearly see different replies.

E.g

First message - No colon
 * First reply - 1 colon
 * Second reply - 2 colons
 * Third - 3 colons.

And so on. --Tomswainson (talk) 11:19, 8 March 2013 (UTC)