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Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Shared Resources – project guide on finding resources; MediaWiki:Extension:Cite – details of the software which support the <ref> parser hooks; Citation problems. Template:Irrelevant citation – inline template to note source simply is not relevant to the material
Training for educators: educators start here! A five-part, 97-page training for professors and other educators who want to run Wikipedia assignments for class, with introductions to core Wikipedia policies, editing basics, and an overview of best practices for designing and implementing Wikipedia assignments.
Wikitext editing using the Source Editor is chosen by clicking the Edit source tab at the top of a Wikipedia page (or on a section-edit link). This opens an editable copy of the page, showing all the wikitext used there, and the Source Editor toolbar offers simple menu options to add or change the formatting.
Directory – the main list of "Wikipedia" and "Help" namespace directories and indexes. Abbreviations – a list of all the abbreviations used on Wikipedia. Departments – a list of all the different divisions of Wikipedia. Editor's index – a list of all the pages to help people who edit pages.
Your greatest strength as a guide would be knowing where to look; you don't need to know every answer but you should know enough to point the new editor to the right place. Be willing to dedicate an average of four to six hours a week. Be willing to give your email address to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Source editor – edits the wikitext of the article, which uses some special characters, like adding [[brackets]] to create a link to another page, or asterisks to make bullet points. Visual Editor – a tool similar to a word processor, for editing articles without the need to understand any special codes or markup. Visual Editor is the default.
A Guide to information sources (or a bibliographic guide, a literature guide, a guide to reference materials, a subject gateway, etc.) is a kind of metabibliography. Ideally it is not just a listing of bibliographies, reference works and other source texts, but more like a textbook introducing users to the information sources in a given field ...
Beginner's Guide to Editing Wikipedia. This step-by-step guide brings together some of the best resources to help you get started in Wikipedia. It is based on a guide originally created by User:LoriLee for middle and high school students to edit Wikipedia. If they can do it, you can!