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4.621, Orientalism Seminar - Editing and Contributing to Wikipedia: Training Videos

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image: video screenshot image of the earth from space with words "we are not in a post fact world"
    

{{1}} Get an account  

{{2}} Create a User Page

{{3}} Build up some Wikicred : edit!

 

credits: By Wikimedia Foundation. Video credits: Directed by Jelly Helm, produced by Noah Stanik, shot by DP Reed Harkness, edited by Sarah Marcus. Music by Matt Carey. Production team, Living Colour. Agency partner Fenton Communications. (YouTube : Wikipedia: Username) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons. By Vojtěch Veselý [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

How to read a Wikipedia Page

By Siankevans [CC BY-SA 4.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Basic editing

By Siankevans [CC BY-SA 4.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Add citations

By Siankevans [CC BY-SA 4.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Assess & improve an article

By Basket of Puppies [CC BY-SA 3.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons

Editing in your Sandbox

Your first edits

By Siankevans [CC BY-SA 4.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Adding Images to Articles

By Siankevans [CC BY-SA 4.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

The purpose of copyright