0. Learn how to edit Wikipedia articles

Hi there!

Hello, I am user:Ichdunich and I will be your coach or trainer for your first steps of editing Wikipedia.

About this Webinar

This Webinar will introduce you to Wikipedia’s values and basic principles. You will get in touch with its worldwide community, which is creating and improving Wikipedia every day. Also, you will learn about some apects of Wikipedia, which may be less visible to you when you are browsing Wikipedia's articles.

You will create your own user account and user page and you will learn how to communicate with fellow Wikipedians.

Also, you will learn how to edit existing articles and you will create your first Wikipedia article and prepare it for release.

Schedule

This Webinar is made up in 10 lessons. Lessons 1-6 comprise some basic editing knowledge and need to be completed before our videocall. Each lesson will take 15-60 minutes to complete. After our videocall there will be three more lessons, which will guide you to write articles and become more proficient as you proceed. I will follow your steps before and after the videocall and provide feedback and answers individually. Please ask any questions any time!

To get started: Please write your first name or any nickname into this etherpad.

Click to ontinue with lesson #1