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Getting started
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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.
- 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.)
- If you don't get a response within a day or two, ask your instructor.
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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.
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If you are part of a course that involves contributing to Wikipedia, you've come to the right place. After completing this orientation, you'll be ready to help build the world's knowledge by contributing your own expertise to Wikipedia.
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- 13: Copyright and plagiarism
- 14: Want to know more about Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines?
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Editors should interact with each other in a respectful and civil manner.
- Respect and be polite to your fellow Wikipedians, even when you disagree.
- Apply Wikipedia etiquette, and avoid personal attacks. Talk to people you disagree with, try to find consensus, avoid edit wars, and remember that there are over four million other articles on the English Wikipedia you could work on instead.
- Act in good faith, and never disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.
- Be open and welcoming, and assume good faith on the part of others.
- When conflict arises, discuss details on the talk page, and if needed, follow the dispute resolution process.
This doesn't apply exclusively to conflicts. Being polite means responding to messages left by editors, thanking other editors for their help, and checking back after an edit to see if anyone has responded. If you were building a house and someone offered to help you paint, you wouldn't just walk away! You're building an encyclopedia with a community's help. Always be mindful of the community around you.
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}}You might think you know what plagiarism is, and how to avoid it. But Wikipedia is a little bit different. The rules cover not only copy-and-paste plagiarism, but also close paraphrasing and copyright violations. And the stakes are high: the consequences of committing plagiarism in a Wikipedia class assignment are the same as handing in a paper you didn't write.
Whether direct copying or close paraphrasing, plagiarism and copyright violation are disruptive and time-consuming for volunteers to clean up. Except for brief quotations—which must be clearly disclosed as such through the use of quote marks (or by set off), and cited to the source of copying using an inline citation—copying content from copyrighted sources into Wikipedia is not only against Wikipedia policy but is illegal.
It can also result in real life implications for those involved, such as academic demotion or expulsion at some universities, and users editing under their real names may leave behind a permanent Internet record of their plagiarism and infringement.
This video lays out what you need to know to avoid these pitfalls! Make sure you watch it before you move on to the next slide.
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- 13: Want to try more markup?
- 14: How do I use talk pages?
- 15: How to use a sandbox for existing articles
- 16: How to use a sandbox for stub articles
- 17: How to use a sandbox for new articles
- 18: My watchlist and how to use it
- 20: The Wikipedia Community
- 21: Decision-making by consensus
- 22: The Bold, Revert, Discuss cycle
- 23: Tips for effective discussion
- 24: Where to get help
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