Library Workshop Spring 2019: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons

Click here to Create Your Wiki Account.

• By logging into wiki your edits will be attributed to the user name you create rather than to your IP address.  
• You will also have your own permanent user page where you can write about yourself, maintain a list of articles you've contributed to or written, and access other information from Wikipedia.  
• Check here for a complete list of Benefits. 

Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

1. Register an account
2. Learn the five pillars
3. Be bold, but not reckless
4. Know your  audience
5. Do not infringe on copyright
6. Cite, cite, cite
7. Avoid shameless self-promotion
8. Share your expertise, but don't argue from authority
9. Write neutrally and with due weight
10. Ask for help

Below is a list of links to Wikipedia's most important current guidelines.  For a more complete set check out the Category:Wikipedia guidelines page. 

• Behavioral guidelines
• Assume good faith
• Conflict of interest
• Courtesy vanishing
• Disruptive editing
• Etiquette
• Gaming the system
• Linking to external harrassment
• Please do not bite the newcomers
• Other behavioral guidelines