User:Mhorney
About this page in Wikipedia
[edit]This is a page I have created to help my students learn more about wikis in general and Wikipedia specifically. My students will get Wikipedia accounts of their own, and practice the editing process using their own User pages.Mhorney (talk) 21:20, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Useful Wikipedia Links
[edit]The Wikipedia top page: Main Page
This page, the User page for Mark Horney: User:Mhorney#top
Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines: Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines
Wikipedia Rules: Simplified_Ruleset
Bad ideas: Wikipedia:List_of_bad_article_ideas
Guidelines for topics to avoid: Wikipedia:NFT
How articles are removed: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion
Guidelines for Notability: WP:Notability
Creating a new article: Wikipedia:Your_first_article
Editing existing pages: Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
Initial Tasks
[edit]- Create an account on Wikipedia.
- Familiarize yourself with with the general guidelines for operating Wikipedia as described in the pages listed above.
- Familiarize yourself with the Wikipedia markup language using to format pages.
- Locate five Wikipedia articles about which you have enough knowledge to edit or expand on.
- Create links to those articles on your User page.Write a description of your expertise in those areas.
- Post a link to your Wikipedia User page on the Wikipedia forum on Blackboard.