Wikipedia:GLAM/NBLA/Training materials

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Training materials

Editing advice

• Making an account and introduction to Wikipedia
• Navigating Wikipedia
• Content guidelines
• Source vs. Visual editing
• Wiki markup cheat sheet
• Additional quick and easy wiki markups used on a regular basis
  • to hyperlink to another Wikipedia page, use double brackets around the page you want to link [[ ]] (this is useful when editing infoboxes, where phrases can only be hyperlinked by brackets)
  • to add a line break when listing items, use the language outlined in this article (also useful when editing infoboxes)

Wikipedia edits to try

• Adding hyperlinks
• Adding infoboxes
• Adding photos to pages
• Create an article!