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How To Create A Wikipedia Article by clemmer90: 4:57pm On Jan 16, 2022
Below we offer a small master class on creating a wiki article. The information in it will be enough to create and properly design the material.

Step 1. Use the search form on the [url]wikipedia.org[/url] site to make sure that the article you plan to write does not yet exist. If it exists, it will automatically take you to its page. If not, Wikipedia will ask you to create an article with the title you killed in the search.
Step 2. Following the red hyperlink, you will get to a non-existent page of the article. More precisely, on the form for its creation, in which the text should be entered.
Note: The title of the article, i.e. what it will be called, is generated automatically. It will be identical to the word or phrase you killed in the search. If necessary, you can change the title yourself.
Step 3. Now you can start writing the article itself. At first we work as if in a regular text editor, not paying much attention to a million different buttons, signs and markup systems on the panel. We enter the basic information, structure it, break it into logical parts. Every Wikipedia article should start with a definition of the concept, phenomenon, person you are writing about. Choose the further logic of the presentation at your own discretion.
Note: No one requires unique copyrighted material from you. After all, Wikipedia articles are a compilation of texts from various open sources.
Step 4. We undertake the formatting of the text: highlight the necessary words or sentences in bold or italics, make bulleted or numbered lists, divide the text into sections and subsections. To do this, use the wiki markup system, which is a kind of simplified version of html-markup for sites. You can enter it either manually or using the format buttons at the top and bottom of the edit panel. There you can also find tips on how to design articles.
Tip: Adding illustrations to your article and creating tables is a bit more complicated. So in the early stages of learning Wikipedia, you can do without it. In general, if you don't know how to add a spreadsheet or something else, go to the edit page for any article that already has the item you want, copy it into your own article, and change the information it contains to the one you need. The same goes for key information cards that you want to create in articles about celebrities, books, movies, and more.
Step 5. Now you need to write an article according to the rules of Wikipedia. Required minimum includes: internal links, categories, and a list of notes.
Internal links are links to other Wikipedia articles. They are affixed according to the keywords found in the material.
Tip: Internal links are always affixed to your own names (names of countries, cities, surnames, titles of works, etc.), dates (days and years). By clicking on the first, you can see all the events in history that took place that day, on the second - the events that took place this year.
Categories - outlines the field or topic to which the article belongs. They are used to sort materials and ease their search.
A list of notes is a list of sources used in writing the article. It is mandatory to create it.
Step 6. Now press the "Preview" button and see what our article will look like. If all goes well, save the page. Do this only when you have already entered a lot of information.
Tip: If you don't have time to finish an article right now, but plan to do so in the future, you can temporarily add "This article is in the process of being edited" to your page.
Conclusions
That's all. You can write about anything. Have you just read a book? Go to her Wikipedia page, see if all the characters are listed there, or if the plot is described correctly. If not, correct it. Or just add what's missing. Did you find a good review of the film? Add a link to it to the "Sources" block on the movie page. And even better - write the most accurate moments and thoughts in the article itself, not forgetting to indicate the source. Are you preparing for the exam? Complete articles that are relevant to your subject. That's how I got hooked on Wikipedia. She was preparing for the media law exam. I searched for the necessary information on the Internet, and from time to time I was taken to the pages of Wikipedia. I noticed that many articles on the topic are missing there, some are, but too clumsy. To rectify the situation, I created my first materials.
Re: How To Create A Wikipedia Article by HayTerran: 4:55am On Jan 17, 2022
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