How to edit Wikipedia - 2018 playlist

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Collection of video tutorials demonstrating how easy editing Wikipedia has become using the new WYSIWYG Visual Editor interface

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03:24

Isabella Skea - writing the Wikipedia article on "The Lass o' Pairts"

Created by Ewan McAndrew

Isabella Skea - writing the Wikipedia article on "The Lass o' Pairts"
Timelapse demonstration of the process of drafting a new page and then publishing it on Wikipedia.

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04:54

Moving a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space.

Created by Ewan McAndrew

Video tutorial to demonstrate how to move a drafted article into Wikipedia's live space.

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38:12

How to edit Wikipedia in 30 mins - 2018 tutorial.

Created by Ewan McAndrew

How to edit Wikipedia in 30 mins - a new 2018 tutorial.

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47:44

How to Edit Wikipedia - unabridged version

Created by Ewan McAndrew

How to Edit Wikipedia - unabridged version
2018 tutorial including how to navigate your way round a page.

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09:08

Wikipedia, an introduction - Erasmus Prize 2015

Created by Ewan McAndrew

Erasmus Prize 2015 awarded to Wikipedia

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04:17

Navigating Wikipedia's front page

Created by Ewan McAndrew

A quick look at the main features of Wikipedia's front page.

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12:15

How to structure an article on Wikipedia - the Featured Article

Created by Ewan McAndrew

A look at all the features that go into constructing an article on Wikipedia.

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24:29

Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates the main features of how to structure & format an article on Wikipedia using Wikipedia's new Visual Editor interface.

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10:49

Wikipedia - Its main policies & guidelines

Created by Ewan McAndrew

Introductory screencast to Wikipedia, recorded by University's Wikimedian-in-Residence, Ewan McAndrew.

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12:37

How to edit Wikipedia using Visual Editor - Part 1: Creating Your Account & Enabling Visual Editor

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video includes:
Hoe to create your Wikipedia account.

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04:06

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.1 Adding Headings

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video shows you how to add headings & a Contents box to your Wikipedia page using the new Visual Editor interface

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01:43

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.2 Adding bold & italics

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to add bold & italic style formatting to your Wikipedia page using the new Visual Editor interface.

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02:11

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.3 Adding bullet points

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to add bullet point formatting to a Wikipedia page using the new Visual Editor interface.

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04:43

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 1.4 Adding links

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to add links within a Wikipedia page using the new Visual Editor interface

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08:18

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.1 Adding citations and references

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to add citations and references to Wikipedia using the new Visual Editor interface.

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05:16

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.2 Further practice with citations (DOI and Pubmed IDs)

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to use Wikipedia's new Visual Editor interface to create citations using a source articles DOI code or its Pubmed ID.

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04:46

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor:Part 2.3 Adding an image

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to add an image to a Wikipedia article using Wikipedia's new Visual Editor interface.

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04:42

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 2.4 Adding categories

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to add categories to a Wikipedia page using the new Visual Editor interface.

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04:34

Editing Wikipedia using Visual Editor: Part 3 Creating a new article in the Sandbox

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to use Wikipedia's Sandbox area to draft an article using the Visual Editor interface and how to copy across this draft article once it is ready to be transferred to Wikipedia's live space.

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04:00

Editing Wikipedia: Communicating with others using the Talk page and Help Desk

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how to create a Talk page, how to sign your username on a Talk page and where to go to ask for help from the Wikipedia community.

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47:51

Program and Events Dashboard Demo - how to manage a Wikipedia course

Created by Ewan McAndrew

Watch this video to learn how the Wikimedia Program and Events Dashboard works and what it can do for Wikimedia course leaders.

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05:40

How easy is Wikipedia's new Visual Editor to use? - 5 min walkthrough

Created by Ewan McAndrew

Previously, to edit Wikipedia you needed to learn HTML markup. Wikipedia's new Visual Editor interface means editing Wikipedia is much more akin to Wordpr

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03:25

How to create multiple sandboxes/personal draft spaces on Wikipedia

Created by Ewan McAndrew

A sandbox is where you draft content before it goes into the Wikipedia live space.
Wikipedia is always going to be a work in progress but it is best practice to draft content in your personal sandbox/draft space first and then mig

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05:23

How to copy drafted text from one sandbox to another for a group editing assignment

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates first how to copy drafted text from one Wikipedia sandbox (one editor's personal draft space) to another user's sandbox i.e. so that

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04:03

How to edit existing pages on Wikipedia the right way.

Created by Ewan McAndrew

This video demonstrates how you should edit existing pages on Wikipedia the correct way.
i.e. being logged in using a Wikipedia account and adding an 'In use' template if you are doing substantial edits to a page so that you avoid edit

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