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Welcome to the Wikimedia Bookshelf!
The Bookshelf is a vast collection of high-quality, freely licensed, user-generated informational material about Wikipedia (see below) and its sister projects (see links above). Here are videos, brochures, and other things. Feel free to browse or add your own material. You might even want to join the Bookshelf Project where others like you create more materials. If you want to translate the materials, visit the localization guidelines.
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For beginners
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Beginner | Welcome to Wikipedia is a reference guide to help you get started to contributing to Wikipedia. Using the guide, you will be able to create a Wikipedia user account, start editing, and communicate with other Wikipedia contributors. You will also learn how articles evolve on Wikipedia and how you can assess quality of an existing Wikipedia article. Welcome to Wikipedia consists 17 pages including a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup commands. | PDF (12 MB) | ||
| All | User Name (Medium) - This video shows some of Wikipedia's contributors, explaining their user names. | 49 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | ||
| All | Nice People (Medium) - This video focuses on the motivations and passion of Wikipedians, and ends with a comment by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what makes the project special. | 1 m 26 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | ||
| All | Edit Button- This video is a direct invitation by Wikipedians to "click that [edit] button and see what happens". | 1 m 6 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | ||
| All | Great Feeling - In this video, Wikipedians talk about the joy of being part of a global community of editors. | 1 m 23 s | Subtitles listed on description page - add yours | ||
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Beginner | This one-page Wiki markup quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. | PDF (1 MB) | ||
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Beginners | Der Leitfaden für Wikipedianer und alle, die es werden wollen. Eine Einführung in Wikipedia, Schritt für Schritt. | Polish | ||
| All | Wikipedia ridotto - Wikimedia Italia presents Wikipedia for new contributors in Italian | 6 m 53 s | Subtitles in Italian, English, Spanish, French so far. Script in Italian. Please help translate. | ||
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Beginner | Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia is an editorial published in PLoS Computational Biology that gives advice for scientists (also relevant to other scholars and experts) on how to effectively contribute to Wikipedia. | |||
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Beginner | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality is a reference guide with specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | |||
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Beginner | Introduction to free licenses helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses. It explains the idea of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". | Arabic | ||
| Anatomy of free licenses | All | Polish, extensive guide about the concept of free licenses. Includes brief descriptions of most popular variants. | PDF (printable) | ||
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Beginner | Portuguese introductory brochure | |||
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Beginner | Slide show overview of Wikipedia, oriented at universities concerned about their public image | OpenOffice ODP | ||
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Beginning educator | Lesson plans for classroom integration of Wikipedia and other projects. Four lesson plans target the language arts, one targets business classes and one targets arts. Lesson plans written to meet local curriculum goals. Low level knowledge of Wikipedia and related projects needed in order to use lesson plans. | |||
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Beginner | An introduction for sport administrators on why they should use wiki, with an emphasis on Wikimedia Foundation projects | |||
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Beginner | A handout for museum professionals that includes an overview of the GLAM-Wiki initiative, case stories on projects, and contact information for getting started. | PDF (838 KB) |
Editing references, instructions and guides
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Beginner | This one-page handout explains the recommended way to get help and feedback for classes supported by Wikipedia Ambassadors: by posting on their course talk page and notifying their mentor. It also includes a glossary of additional help resources students might use. | |
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Beginner | This handout covers the basics of writing a biography of a living person on English Wikipedia; it was prepared for the Australian Paralympic Committee, but has many points that apply to BLP's generally. Source text here: Editing Sport Biographies on Wikipedia. A quick version of this was created for biographies about journalists and can be found at File:WP - BLP - Journalists.pdf. | |
| Citing sources handout | Intermediate | This handout explains why references are important, where to place them, and the basics of adding "ref" tags. | |
| Plagiarism handout | Intermediate | This handout explains what plagiarism is on Wikipedia in addition to why and how to avoid it. | |
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Intermediate | This handout walks through how to move an article draft from a userpage sandbox into Wikipedia | |
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Beginner | This short handout explains why and how uploaded files (images) should be licensed. | SVG image |
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Beginner | This handout explains the basics of "ref" tags and the "name" parameter as well as "citation templates." | |
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Intermediate | This handout explains the basics of uploading an image on the English Wikipedia. | |
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Advanced | This handout walks through how to submit a new or newly expanded article to the Did You Know process so that it will appear on the Main Page. | |
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Beginner | Visual explanation of the user contribution page | SVG |
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Beginner | Odia (Oriya Wikipedia FAQ, Display & Typing Help, 1.0 is created to provide support for Frequently asked questions on Odia Wikipedia, Display issues and their solution and Typing Support. | |
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Beginner | Bookmark handouts with short URLs linking to the introduction, and tutorials on starting new articles, editing, uploading images, donating, and using the Reference Desks (4 letter size pages; 11 bookmarks per page.) | |
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Beginner | Introduction to Wikimedia Commons and reference guide to uploading pictures. |
For intermediate learners
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| File:Verifiability and Neutral point of view (Common Craft)-en.ogv | Intermediate | This video explains two core principles of Wikipedia: Verifiability and Neutral point of view. | 2 m 10 s | ||
| All | The State of Wikipedia - In this video, Jimmy Wales tells the history of Wikipedia and talks about the project's 10th anniversary | 3 m 43 s | Transcript here | ||
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Beginner | Introduction to free licenses helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses. It explains the idea of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". | PDF (1,3 MB) | Arabic – you can help | |
| Anatomy of free licenses | All | Polish, extensive guide about the concept of free licenses. Includes brief descriptions of most popular variants. | PDF (printable) | ||
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Beginner | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality is a reference guide with specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | PDF (547 KB) | Arabic – you can help |
For advanced learners
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Web and social media experts at cultural institutions | Video for Wikipedia and the Open Web: A Guide to Best Practices for Cultural and Educational Institutions is a detailed guideline that seeks to mobilize cultural and educational institutions to contribute to Wikimedia and other open web projects. It includes detailed how-to instructions for contributing video to Wikimedia projects. | PDF (3.3 MB) |
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| Advanced Wikimedians/Wikipedians seeking to create instructional videos for new contributors | Screencasting - This video advocates for using screencasting as a tool for instructing new content contributors on our projects. Other videos, on this WikiProject page, go into more detail about how to produce a screencast with free or inexpensive software. | 5 m 15 s | Script | ||
| Scientists | Wikimedia as a public engagement tool for scientists | text | * [1] | ||
| Professionals in the arts and humanities | Wikimedia as a public engagement tool for the arts and humanities | text | * [2] |
Books
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| Wikipedia: The Missing Manual | All | Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is a 2008 book by Wikipedian John Broughton. It is a how-to guide that explains the process of contributing to the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was released in O'Reilly Media's Missing Manual series. In 2009, it was released under a free license. | Editable version | |
| How Wikipedia Works | All | How Wikipedia Works is a 2008 book by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates. It is a how-to reference for using and contributing to the Wikipedia encyclopedia, targeted at "students, professors, and everyday experts and fans". It offers specific sections for teachers, reusers, and researchers. | Full version on Google Books (first page) | |
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Swedish speakers | Så fungerar Wikipedia is a book in Swedish by Wikipedian Lennart Guldbrandsson, that was released in 2008, and then put under a free license in 2010. | ||
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Portuguese speakers | As organizações no ciberespaço is a masters degree thesis. The aim of this work is to analyze the structure and maintance of a non-financial virtual comunity - portuguese language Wikipedia - in relation to the structure's organization already existed. Based on the theoretical direction on one of those most influenced strengths over the society, the work follows a qualitative way, using the method of case study research, being helped by the observation, interviews and questionaries as collection tool that were applaied on the members and supporters of the organization founded on qualitative sample. The results obtained indicate some evidence of pre-concepted theories and their new dimension on the ciberspace context. | No translations yet. | |
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Macedonian civic organizations | en Прирачник за wiki is a book by Wikipedians Kiril Simeonovski, Zoran Meckarski, Slobodan Jacoski and Dimce Grozdanoski. It is an Instruction manual wirtten in Macedonian. The aim of this work is to help Macedonian civic organizations to start their own wiki site, wiki administration, editing its content, and building the site policy.
mk Прирачник за wiki е книга на википедијанците Кирил Симеоновски, Зоран Мечкарски, Слободан Јаќоски и Димче Грозданоски. Прирачникот е напишан на македонски јазик. Намената на прирачниот е да биде од помош на македонските здруженија на граѓани во поставувањето на сопствен вики сајт, негова администрација, ажурирање на содржините и градење на политики за управување со викито. |
за вики.pdf PDF | Albanian |
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Macedonian civic organizations | en Doracak për wiki is a book by Wikipedians Kiril Simeonovski, Zoran Meckarski, Slobodan Jacoski and Dimce Grozdanoski. It is an Albanian translation of "Прирачник за wiki" in Macedonian. The aim of this work is to help Macedonian civic organizations to start their own wiki site, wiki administration, editing its content, and building the site policy.
mk Doracak për wiki е книга напишана од википедијанците Кирил Симеоновски, Зоран Мечкараски, Слободан Јаќоски и Димче Грозданоски. Овој прирачник е превод на албански на македонското издание на прирачникот. Намената на овој прирачник е да биде од помош на македонските граѓански организации при започнувањето на нивни сопствени вики сајтови, нивна администрација, уредување, и градење на политики за управување со содржините на викито. |
per wiki.pdf PDF | Macedonian |
See also
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Account creation tutorial (2 min 35 sec)
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Explanation of Verifiablity and Neutral Point of View (2 min 10 sec)
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Starting a sandbox article tutorial (2 min 11 sec)
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Basic editing: bold and links (3 min 37 sec)
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Basic editing: citing sources, part 1 (2 min 3 sec)
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Article creation tutorial (7 min 50 sec)
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WikiProject U.S. Public Policy assessment tutorial (6 min 47 sec)
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Copyright licenses involved in uploading files (3 min 28 sec)
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HotCat and categories explanation (5 min 43 sec)
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How to use a watchlist (2 min 10 sec)
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Quick account creation walkthrough
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How to log in
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Quick starting a sandbox walkthrough
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Quick sandbox article test, with a reference
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How to use talk pages
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How to add an image
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Article improvement
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Article assessments (general, not WikiProject United States Public Policy)
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Article evolution
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How to use talk pages
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How to use the RefTools gadget for inserting references
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Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons, using the upload wizard (2 min 48 sec)
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Editing (in English)
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Editing (in German)
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Reliability (in English)
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Reliability (in German)
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Video in Swedish about quality tools in Wikipedia, part 1
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Video in Swedish about quality tools in Wikipedia, part 2
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Video in Swedish about quality management in Wikipedia
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Video in Swedish about Wikipedia in the school
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Video in Swedish about what a Wikimedia chapter does
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Edit tutorial in Odia Wikipedia
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How to Edit an Article (Arabic)
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[edit]Posters
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On-wiki tutorials
[edit]- Wikipedia:Tutorial - General introduction to Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Article wizard - Walkthrough of the requirements for articles, including notability and sources
- Wikipedia:Picture tutorial - Explains how to insert pictures into Wikipedia articles using wikitext
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials (advanced) - advice about advanced image editing
- Outline for an event at a children's museum, by Wikipedian in Residence Lori Phillips
Tools
[edit]- List of articles edited by Public Policy Initiative participants <-- Dead link -- is this really gone? -Pete (talk) 02:44, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
- Public Policy Initiative Student-O-Meter
Guidelines and best practices
[edit]- Online Ambassador guidelines
- Assignments advice - Best practices and advice for the different aspects of running a Wikipedia assignment
- Guide to IRC for ambassadors
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