User:Warga1/sandbox
Apply bold and italics
Per Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting use three apostrophes for bold and two apostrophes for italics. Use five for bold italics, though that is seldom used. Copy the exercise below to a sandbox.
This whole sentence should be bold. This whole sentence should have italics. Leave this part alone but put the last four words in bold. Now put the first three words of this sentence in italics. Make this whole sentence bold and italics. Put italics on the names of books and bold the names of individuals: What Color Is Your Parachute? Janet Jackson. Green Eggs and Ham. King Tut. Bhagavad Gita. Madonna.
Getting Started
Wikipedia is 15 years old. During that time it has developed many nuances and complexities. It is a massive multiplayer encyclopedia project. While it has no central editing group, there are many checks and balances in place to guide the development of content in the encyclopedia.
Lots of information in Wikipedia about this structure. Create a section below about this.
As with anything, start slow and gradually master the practice. Join a project - attend a edit-a-thon - ask questions (Ed Warga and Cliff Anderson are on campus and happy to help).
One starting point is reviewing articles and improving them incrementally. Try proofreading existing articles. Try researching statements flagged citation needed.
Account and UserName
- Choose a username
- Start an account
- Create your user page, talk page and sandbox
Practice in your sandbox
Let's review how to edit Wikipedia in your sandbox
Two Ways to Edit
- Beta visual editor - for those who like wisywigs and haven;t used the mediaWiki editor. Adjust preferences to turn this feature on.
- MediaWiki editor - use mediaWiki markup to edit text in the in browser text editor.
Adding Citations
Step by Step
- Place curser next to statement where you wish to provide a citation.
- Click the Cite Tab in the editor menu
- Select a Template
- Input metadata about the resource
- Click Insert
Citation Needed
Wikipedia users can flag statements in content sections that they think need to be cited. Using a template. A template renders some content on the page using this syntax: {{TEMPLATE TEXT}}
The {{citation needed}} flag is used on 316,000+ pages.
Here is a list of all the articles needing citation cleanup work: Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_statements
Here are some inline cleanup template examples. Take a look at the Verifiability section.
Bibliography
A bibliography is a list of resources containing information about the topic... If you want more information about the topic, consult the resources listed in the bibliography...
- In Wikipedia a bibliography is list of citations not used as inline references.
- Use the citation templates to add the citation to the page, and then remove the "ref" tags from the markup: <ref>''citation''</ref>.
Last, First (2015). Title. Location: Publisher. ISBN 1234567890123. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid prefix (help)
ContentSection
Abraham Lincoln was no slouch as evidenced by, among other things, the work he created during his life. [1]
practice
William Imbrie was a man [2]
References
- ^ Lincoln, Abraham; Basler, Roy P.; Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). The collected works of Abraham Lincoln. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- ^ Dobbins, F. S. (1904). "A REMARKABLE INTERVIEW BETWEEN COUNT KATSURA, prime minister of japan, and dr. william imbrie of the presbyterian mission". Baptist Missionary Magazine. 84 (9): 635.