User:Ryan McGrady/spring2014/com257/workshop1

Wikipedia workshop 1

The basics

1. Special:UserLogin - create account
2. Special:Preferences - your preferences
   • User Profile tab
     • click Manage Your Global Account
     • enable Always use a secure connection when logged in
   • Appearance tab
     • MonoBook
   • Date & Time tab
     • fill in from browser
   • Editing tab
     • enable section editing
     • Visual Editor (?)
   • Gadgets tab
     • Image Annotator
     • Revision jumper
     • Suppress display
     • HotCat
     • ProveIt
     • edit link for lead
   • Notifications tab

Cat example

1. go to this page, select "edit" and copy all of the contents (highlight and CTRL-C). Then come back here.
2. in your browser's address bar above, where it says "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ryan_McGrady/spring2014/com257/workshop1" add to the end "/yourusername" without quotes and substituting your Wikipedia username for "yourusername." The effect is to create a new subpage of this one. For example, if your username is Wikiz4eva, you would visit "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ryan_McGrady/spring2014/com257/workshop1/Wikiz4eva".
3. go to that page and paste the text you copied in step one into the big edit box. Click "save page" at the bottom.

Sources

• For "According to Scientific American, cats are the most popular pet in the world, and are now found almost every place where people live."
  • Scientific American - The Taming of the Cat
• For "Since cats were cult animals in ancient Egypt, they were commonly believed to have been domesticated there"
  • New York Times - Study Traces Cat's Ancestry to Middle East
• Add another citation for "A genetic study in 2007 revealed that domestic cats are descended from African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) c. 8000 BC, in the Middle East."