User:Octavosaurus/Sandbox for UCL Wikimedians

Welcome to Wikipedia, UCL Wikimedians!

Register for our Term One sessions:

• October meeting and editathon: Wednesday October 23, 4 - 6pm
• November meeting and training session: Wednesday November 27, 4 - 7pm
• December meeting and editathon: Wednesday December 11, 4 - 6pm

Some core links for you:

• Use this link to create a Wikipedia account
• Our Outreach Dashboard page for UCL Wikimedians
• An Etherpad (notepad) for you to ask questions and share experiences
• Slides for this training session

Links from the training sessions:

• Listen to Wikipedia
• Wikipedia main page
• Lilias Armstrong (example of what's on a Wikipedia page)
• Ranking classes of Wikipedia articles
• How to create a new user page (PDF)
• About sandboxes

Things to do to start editing Wikipedia:

• Citation Hunt (Find citations for Wikipedia articles)
• OABot (Find Open Access links for Wikipedia articles)
• Explore the WikiProjects directory
• Look at the suggested edits on your homepage
• Upload your own images to Wikimedia Commons
• Play with Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Links from Useful Links slide

The World of Wiki

• Wikipedia (en)
• Wikipedia Task Center
• Wiki Projects
• Connected Heritage (until 2023)

Wikipedia Policies

• Policies and Guidelines
• Wikimedia Universal Code of Conduct
• Notability

• Criteria for Speedy Deletion

• Content Assessment
• Ignore all rules (!)

Extra help

• The Tea House
• Wikipedia Meetups
• Using prefixes in searches
• Community Portal

Other fun things

• Depths of Wikipedia (Instagram) and, of course, the Depths of Wikipedia Wikipedia page