User:ChyranandChloe/Workshop 5
This page is designed to provide information for new commers, especially those who are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, and those users wishing to find out more. The following groups have been identified, and a possible first paragraph and outline has been provided. To view futher proposals please see the documentation.
Browsers
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Wikipedia hosts a tremendous number of articles in a host of topics. As of August 2007, if the English Wikipedia was to be printed on paper it would easily stretch 801 volumes (each volume 25cm tall, 5cm thick, and containing 1,600,000 words or 8,000,000 characters). (more...)
To begin, simply search for whatever you wish to know. If you do not have a specific interest. You may return the the main page and select a portal or category that you may be interested in.
If you have a specific question that the article does not cover, or you're searching for an opinion — feel free to ask for help. For questions about how to use Wikipedia see the Wikipedia:Help desk; for questions about a topic see the Wikipedia:Reference desk. To start a query scroll down the end of the page and click the [edit] link to open the last section. When the section is open, add a one to two lines and start new a section with two equal signs on each side of the title of your query (==[you title goes here]==). Then ask the question below that title, be sure to add four tildas (~~~~) at the end of your query to sign that you were the one asking the question. Most questions are answered within a few minutes.
Remaining outline:
- It grows everyday
- How editing is done
- Becomming a new user
Educators
[edit]Wikipedia utilizes a one for all encycolopedia design, but this is merely our slogan. This article will not thread there; Wikipedia may be an encycolopdia that anyone can edit, but it is not an encyclopedia where vandalism or any other undesired action is tolerated. If you already understand this, it may be of interested to become a registered user. Wikipedia has policies and guidelines which will be described below, along with tools in which vandalism and other undesired actions are extinguished.
Wikipedia is not: an experiment for anarchy, a battleground for idealogies, a soapbox for revisionists and propaganda, or a cyrstal ball attempting to predict the future (more...).
Remaining outline:
- Policies and guidelines
- Anti-vandalism
- In context
- Articles, references, and their quality rating
- Status is measured by content
Educatees
[edit]Remaining outline:
- How to use Wikipedia
- What to look for
- Don't reference Wikipedia, reference the information cited
Media professionals
[edit]Remaining outline:
- Wikipedia is not
- In context
- Its community
New user
[edit]Remaining outline:
- Introduction
- Tutorial
- Adopt a user
Users
[edit]Remaining outline:
- Syntax, templates, and tools
- Wikiprojects