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This page contains resources for the University of Idaho's Wikipedia Workshop and Edit-a-Thon on October 23, 2013, part of the library's Open Access Week.

Getting started

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Learning all of Wikipedia's rules* would take more than a day. But you really only need to know a few basics to be a good contributor:

  1. Neutral point of view (NPOV) – Avoid biased statements and opinions. Cite your sources, and prefer reliable, independent sources.
  2. No original research (OR) – If you can't cite a source for a statement, you probably shouldn't add it. The standard is verifiability, not truth.
  3. Biographies of living persons (BLP) – Be especially careful when editing these.
  4. Ignore all rules (IAR) – If a rule prevents you from improving Wikipedia, ignore it! (But don't ignore the first three rules.)
  5. Be bold – Jump in and give it a try!

Important pages

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Practice

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  • User:Alex Kyrios/sandbox – I've copied the beginning of the Idaho article, adding a few errors and requests for citations. Let's see if we can fix it.

Finding articles

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