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Welcome to Wikipedia editing workshop! In this 90-minute session, Netha, Ayyappadas and Abhinav will run you through Wikipedia's guidelines and help you to write your first article. You can choose between creating a new article or playing with a mock article. Please find the list of articles below. Choose an article of your choice and start editing now!

Create a new article!

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Sl. No Article Description References Create now!
1 Einstein (parrot) A parrot trained to imitate sounds on cue, owned by animal trainer Stephanie White. [1], [2] Create now
2 Dan Cobley Marketing director at Google. TED Speaker. [3], [4] Create now
3 Donald D. Hoffman Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine. TED speaker. [5], [6] Create now
4 Janice Price President of The Banff Centre. [7], [8] Create now
5 Two Jack Lake Two Jack Lake is the name given to the southern part of Lake Minnewanka. [9], [10] Create now
6 The City 2.0 The idea that won the $ 1 million TED prize in 2012. [11], [12] Create now

To choose from the list of TED speakers who do not have an article about them yet, please click here. Those speakers who have their names italicized do not yet have a Wikipedia article of their own. If you'd instead like to create an article about someone/something of your choice, please talk with one of the facilitators to determine the notability of your subject.

Play with a mock article

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Sl. No Mock article Original article Description Play now!
1 TED TED The fun conference of cool people from around the world! Play now
2 History of Canada History of Canada The exciting story of how a country came into existence. Play now
3 Whistler Whistler The snowy city that hosted the Winter Olympics not so long ago. Play now
4 Truth or Dare Truth or Dare The interesting game that TED 2015 was named after. Play now
5 Vancouver Vancouver Cherry blossoms and mountains, everywhere! Play now
6 American Black Bear American Black Bear She's adorable, cute and charming. Play now
7 Lake Minnewanka Lake Minnewanka Explore the lake (if you haven't, yet!) Demo

Translate an existing article to your language

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If you are interested in translating an existing article from English Wikipedia to your language, please activate the Content Translation Tool from Beta. Please note that the tool works only if you have a Wikipedia account. Once you have activated the tool, click on 'Contributions' on the top right of this page and choose the 'Translation' feature. You will be prompted by the tool to create your article in the language of your choice.

The screenshot of the translation tool.
The screenshot of the translation tool.

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