User:Dick Bos/Intro20190128

see the Project page on nl-wiki (in Dutch).

• Preliminary Remark
• What is Wikipedia / Wikimedia ?
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia - overview
• Encyclopedic writing
• NPOV / NOR
• Copyleft
• The Wikipedia community
• Wikimedia
• Finding your way
• Before you start
• Want to know more?

• etc.

.

Page structure

• The lead section:
  WP:BEGIN
• The table of contents
  WP:TOC
  , mostly auto generated
• The body of the text, with sections and perhaps subsections -
  WP:BODY
• Images etc. -> Wikimedia Commons. Embedding files from commons: Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. Go to commons: c:Main Page
• Appendix, with references and external links -
  WP:APPENDIX
• Footer with categories -
  H:CAT

Editing

• See: Help:Editing for an explanation on how to edit and save.
• See the
  Help:Wiki markup
  for more information on the wikicode.
• Wikipedia is about links - internal links and external links.
  WP:LINKS
  ; internal links: not to little, not to much; external links: always in a separate section at the bottom (or in references).
• Work through the
  tutorial
  , or get some practice in your own sandbox, to get used to the elementary syntax. And often look at other pages, to see how experienced Wikipedians have done things.

Some details

• Make a list of pages that you find useful; on your user page or a subpage. For instance: try to make a link to this page (then it's no longer a poor little orphan). You can also make a short list of pages that are related to your field of study. Make a list of useful literature.
• Templates: for instance: infobox
• Citations and referencing:
  Help:Introduction_to_referencing/1
• For citations you can use Template:Cite book or Template:Cite journal or Template:Citation or Template:Cite web
• if you're not in the Main namespace, please sign your posts!
• redirects and disambiguation pages
• Make a watchlist -
  WP:WATCH

Help!

• There are lots of help-pages; a good start is the help button in the left column.
• Don't hesitate to ask advice from experienced editors; use their talk pages. You can also visit the Teahouse.
• The Manual of Style:
  WP:MoS; and a nice Beginners' guide to MoS
  .

• See my page on books.

the text below temporarily copied from Dutch page of project / integrate this in the "final version" of the text