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List of resources for new contributors
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මෙම පිටුව help in general පිලිබඳ වේ. the software feature for newly registered users සඳහා,
Wikipedia:GettingStarted
බලන්න.
"WP:WELCOME" මෙතැනට යළියොමුවෙයි. the Welcoming committee සඳහා,
Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
බලන්න.
කෙටි මං
H:GS
WP:HI
මෙම පිටුව ඉංග්රීසි ව්යාපෘතියෙන් මෙහි ගෙනවිත් ඇත. අන්තර්ගතය අපගේ ව්යාපෘතිය සමඟ 100% නොගැලපෙනමුත් අපගේ අවශ්යතාවයන් වලට අනුකූලව ගොඩනගා ගැනීම සඳහා මූලික පියවර ලෙස භාවිතා කළ හැකිය.
As a new editor, you may feel a little overwhelmed by the sheer size and
scope of Wikipedia
. Don't fret! Here are some resources that you can look into:
The
contributing to Wikipedia
page provides information, links, videos and other resources on the basics needed to edit Wikipedia.
The
five pillars
is a popular summary of the most pertinent
Wikipedia principles
The
community portal
is a central location to find collaborations, tasks, and news about Wikipedia.
There are volunteers available to answer your questions at the
Teahouse
Overview tutorials
Introductory editing tutorials
These tutorials
explain how to edit
with
wiki markup
(Wikipedia's source code)
and with
VisualEditor
(a user-friendly interface).
Starting introduction
Policies and Guidelines
Editing
Referencing
Images
Tables
Editing
Referencing
Images
Tables
Talk pages
Navigating Wikipedia
Manual of Style
Conclusion
A video that articulates the diversity and enthusiasm of the Wikipedia Community.
(4:10 min)
Note
: You can use the
sandbox
to experiment with page editing.
Introduction
: our main tutorial to the core principles of how to edit contained in thirteen short modules (as
listed below
).
The Wikipedia Adventure
: a module-guided tour with fun, interactive learning, and practice.
Your first article
: an article that discusses some of the
dos
and
don'ts
, then shows you how to create an article.
Note:
The
ability to create articles
directly in mainspace
is restricted
to
autoconfirmed users
, though non-confirmed users and non-registered users can submit a proposed article through the
Articles for Creation
process, where it will be reviewed and considered for publication.
Topic-specific introductions
Introduction to navigating Wikipedia
: a seven-part guide to navigating Wikipedia: Introduction; Namespaces; Searching pages; Page histories; Redirects and shortcuts; Useful links; and Summary.
Protocols and conventions
Introduction to policies and guidelines
: a four-part guide to the
rules
: Policies and guidelines; Content; Conduct; and Summary.
Introduction to the Manual of Style
: a six-part introduction to the
Manual of Style
: The Manual of Style; Article sections; Images and refs; Linking; Consistency; and Summary.
Introduction to the deletion process
: discusses the guidelines and policies relevant to deletion, as well as the overall process.
Editing with Source editor
Introduction to editing
: a six-part guide to editing: Editing pages; Formatting; Links and wikilinks; Saving your changes; Creating new articles; and Summary.
Introduction to referencing
: a five-part introduction to referencing: Verifiability; Inline citations; RefToolbar; Reliable sources; and Summary.
Introduction to uploading images
: a four-part guide on uploading images: Introduction; Uploading images; Using an image; and Summary.
Introduction to tables
: a four-part guide to putting tables in pages: Introduction to tables; Editing tables; Expanding tables; and Summary.
Introduction to talk pages
: a six-part guide to using
talk pages
: Talk pages; User talk pages; Layout; Examples; Drawing attention; and Summary.
Editing with VisualEditor
Introduction to editing with VisualEditor
: a six-part introduction to editing with VisualEditor: Opening the editor; Toolbar basics; Links and wikilinks; Publishing changes; Creating new articles; and Summary.
Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor
: a six-part introduction to referencing: Verifiability; Adding references; Editing existing ones; Reusing references; Reliable sources; and Summary.
Introduction to uploading images with VisualEditor
: a six-part guide on uploading images: Introduction; Uploading images; Inserting images; Editing the details; Galleries; and Summary.
Introduction to tables with VisualEditor
: a five-part guide to putting tables in pages: Introduction to tables; Editing tables; Adding new tables; Expanding tables; and Summary.
Training for student assignments
These self-guided
trainings
help users involved with
student assignments
to learn the basics of Wikipedia.
Training for students
students start here!
A four-part, 57-page training intended for students doing assignments on Wikipedia, with more detailed introductions to core Wikipedia policies, editing basics, and more specific editing advice for students. Chapters: Welcome (4 pages); The Core (14 pages); Editing (24 pages); and Advanced and background (15 pages).
Training for educators
educators start here!
A five-part, 97-page training for professors and other educators who want to run Wikipedia assignments for class, with introductions to core Wikipedia policies, editing basics, and an overview of best practices for designing and implementing Wikipedia assignments.
Guides
VisualEditor user guide
: a full manual for
Wikipedia:VisualEditor
Plain and simple
: the basic mechanics of Wikipedia. There are similar guides for:
Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
: for editors with a conflict of interests.
Plain and simple guide for medical editors
: for editing medical subjects.
Plain and simple non-free content guide
: discusses how Wikipedia's copyright guidelines are probably the most complicated part of the whole site, and breaks down what the rules are and what they mean.
Smartphone editing
(Personal User essay)
: a Wikipedia administrator's personal experiences and advice about phone editing.
Quick guides
Edit toolbar
: how to use the edit toolbar while editing.
Media help
: how to get media to work on your computer.
Citations quick reference
: a quick guide to using citations.
Wikitext cheatsheet
: a quick guide to wikitext.
Overview articles
8 simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
: describes some basics about contributing and interactions with others.
10 Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
: discusses some basic aspects of Wikipedia norms and practices.
A primer for newcomers
: an overview intended for new contributors.
Avoiding common mistakes
: discusses a few common mistakes everyone should try to avoid.
Expectations and norms of the community
: discusses the general social norms that Wikipedia editors are expected to follow.
Everything you need to know
: a quick overview of some of Wikipedia's most important policies.
Learning the ropes
: discusses how to learn about Wikipedia.
Books and videos
The Missing Manual
: a comprehensive how-to book that explains everything about contributing for novice to expert editors.
Wikipedia instructional material
: a listing of screencasts, videos, and books.
The Bookshelf
: (external link) a vast collection of high-quality, freely licensed, user-generated informational material about Wikipedia.
Specialised tutorials
Pictures tutorial
: how to insert pictures in pages. A long tutorial, but the basics are simple.
Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
: lots of links to graphics software tutorials.
IRC tutorial
: how to use
Internet Relay Chat
on Wikipedia.
Help resources and assistance
Help desk
Getting started
හා සබැඳි මාධ්ය විකිමාධ්ය කොමන්ස් හි ඇත.
There is the
Help Menu
and
Help Directory
for a listing of help related pages.
Wikipedia:Directory
: a descriptive list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes.
Wikipedia:FAQ
: a list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Wikipedia:Questions
: discusses how to ask questions on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Tips
: how to use Wikipedia in bite-sized morsels.
Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts
: summarizes some of Wikipedia's protocols in a bullet-point format.
මෙම පිටුවේ සඳහන් දෑ තේරුම් ගැනීමට අපහසු ද?
මෙම සබැඳිය භාවිතා කර ඔබගේ ම සාකච්ඡා පිටුව තුළ උදව් ඉල්ලීමක් කරන්න
; ඔබට උදවු කිරීමට කෙනෙක් පැමිණෙනු ඇත!
Wikipedia editor navigation
විකිපීඩියා ප්රතිපත්ති
පංචස්තම්භ
Statement of our principles
Simplified ruleset
Synopsis of our conventions
List of policies
Wikipedia's policy pages
Jimbo's statement
Historic principles
Wikimedia principles
Common to all projects
ප්රධාන විකිපීඩියා ප්රතිපත්ති සහ මාර්ගෝපදේශන
සමාලෝචනය
පංච කුලුනු
ප්රතිපත්ති සහ මාර්ගෝපදේශන
ප්රතිපත්ති සහ මාර්ගෝපදේශන ලැයිස්තුව
ප්රතිපත්ති ලැයිස්තුව
මාර්ගෝපදේශන ලැයිස්තුව
ව්යාපෘති-ව්යාප්ත ප්රතිපත්ති
විකිපීඩියාව කුමක් නොවන්නේද
සංස්කරණ ප්රතිපත්තිය
සම්මුතිය
ගැටුම් නිරාකරණය
සියළු නීති නොසලකන්න
අරටු අන්තර්ග ප්රතිපත්ති
මධ්යස්ථ දෘෂ්ඨිය
No original research
සත්යෝක්ෂ්යතාව
අන්තර්ගතයන් පිළිබඳ වෙනත් ප්රතිපත්ති
ලිපි මාතෘකා
සජීවී පුද්ගල චරිතාපදාන
මකා දැමීමේ ප්රතිපත්තිය
අන්තර්ගත මාර්ගෝපදේශන
Citing sources
බහුරුත්හරණය
Do not create hoaxes
Do not include copies of primary sources
Identifying reliable sources
Notability
Map conventions
Patent nonsense
හැසිරීම් පිළිබඳ ප්රතිපත්ති
Child protection
ආචාරශීලීභාවය
Edit warring
හිරිහැරකිරීම
No legal threats
No personal attacks
Ownership of articles
Sock puppetry
හැසිරීම් පිළිබඳ මාර්ගෝපදේශන
Assume good faith
Conflict of interest
Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
Etiquette
Gaming the system
Please do not bite the newcomers
සංස්කරණ මාර්ගෝපදේශන
ලිපියෙහි තරම
නිර්භීත වන්න
ශිරස්කසටහන්
අත්සන්
සාකච්ඡා පිටු මාර්ගෝපදේශන
Subpages
User pages
WikiProjects
විලාශ සම්මුති
Manual of Style
Dates and numbers
Layout
Lead section
Lists
Linking
වර්ගීකරණ මාර්ගෝපදේශන
Categories, lists, and navigation templates
Categorization
Template namespace
විකිමීඩියා පදනම
Licensing and copyright
ප්රතිපත්ති ලැයිස්තුව
ප්රතිපත්ති
මාර්ගෝපදේශන
විකිපීඩියා රචනා
Essays on building, editing, and deleting content
Philosophy
Articles must be written
All Five Pillars are the same height
Avoid vague introductions
Be a reliable source
Civil POV pushing
Cohesion
Competence is required
Concede lost arguments
Dissent is not disloyalty
Don't lie
Don't search for objections
Editing Wikipedia is like visiting a foreign country
Editors will sometimes be wrong
Eight simple rules for editing our encyclopedia
Explanationism
External criticism of Wikipedia
Here to build an encyclopedia
Levels of competence
Most ideas are bad
Need
Neutrality of sources
Not editing because of Wikipedia restriction
The one question
Oversimplification
Paradoxes
Paraphrasing
POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields
Process is important
Product, process, policy
Purpose
Reasonability rule
Systemic bias
There is no seniority
Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
Tendentious editing
The role of policies in collaborative anarchy
The rules are principles
Trifecta
Wikipedia in brief
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a community
Article construction
100K featured articles
Acronym overkill
Advanced source searching
Adding images improves the encyclopedia
Advanced article editing
Advanced table formatting
Advanced template coding
Advanced text formatting
Akin's Laws of Article Writing
Alternatives to the "Expand" template
Amnesia test
A navbox on every page
An unfinished house is a real problem
Articles have a half-life
Autosizing images
Avoid mission statements
Bare URLs
Be neutral in form
Beef up that first revision
Blind men and an elephant
BOLD, revert, discuss cycle
Build content to endure
Cherrypicking
Chesterton's fence
Children's lit, adult new readers, & large-print books
Citation overkill
Citation underkill
Common-style fallacy
Concept cloud
Creating controversial content
Criticisms of society may be consistent with NPOV and reliability
Deprecated sources
Dictionaries as sources
Don't demolish the house while it's still being built
Don't get hung up on minor details
Don't hope the house will build itself
Don't panic
Don't revert due solely to "no consensus"
Don't teach the controversy
Editing on mobile devices
Editors are not mindreaders
Encourage the newcomers
Endorsements (commercial)
Featured articles may have problems
Formatting bilateral relations articles
Formatting bilateral relations templates
Fruit of the poisonous tree
Give an article a chance
How to write a featured article
Identifying and using independent sources
History sources
Law sources
Primary sources
Science sources
Style guides
Tertiary sources
Ignore STRONGNAT for date formats
Inaccuracies in Wikipedia namespace
Inaccuracy
Introduction to structurism
Link rot
Mine a source
Merge Test
Minors and persons judged incompetent
"Murder of" articles
Not every story/event/disaster needs a biography
Not everything needs a navbox
Not everything needs a template
Not everything needs a WikiProject
Nothing is in stone
Obtain peer review comments
Organizing disambiguation pages by subject area
Permastub
Potential, not just current state
Presentism
Principle of Some Astonishment
Printability
Pruning article revisions
Publicists
Put a little effort into it
Restoring part of a reverted edit
Robotic editing
Sham consensus
Source your plot summaries
Specialized-style fallacy
Stub Makers
Run an edit-a-thon
Temporary versions of articles
Tertiary-source fallacy
There are no shortcuts to neutrality
There is no deadline
There is a deadline
The deadline is now
Understanding Wikipedia's content standards
Walled garden
What an article should not include
Wikipedia is a work in progress
Wikipedia is not a reliable source
Wikipedia is not being written in an organized fashion
The world will not end tomorrow
Write the article first
Writing better articles
Writing article content
Avoid thread mode
Copyediting reception sections
Gender-neutral language
Proseline
We shouldn't be able to figure out your opinions
Write the article first
Writing about women
Writing better articles
Removing or
deleting content
Adjectives in your recommendations
AfD is not a war zone
Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
Arguments to avoid in deletion reviews
Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions
Arguments to make in deletion discussions
Avoid repeated arguments
Before commenting in a deletion discussion
But there must be sources!
Confusing arguments mean nothing
Content removal
Counting and sorting are not original research
Delete the junk
Does deletion help?
Don't attack the nominator
Don't confuse stub status with non-notability
Don't overuse shortcuts to policy and guidelines to win your argument
Follow the leader
How to save an article proposed for deletion
I just don't like it
Identifying blatant advertising
Identifying test edits
Immunity
Keep it concise
Liar liar pants on fire
Nothing
Nothing is clear
Overzealous deletion
Relisting can be abusive
Relist bias
The Heymann Standard
Unopposed AFD discussion
Wikipedia is not Whack-A-Mole
Why was the page I created deleted?
What to do if your article gets tagged for speedy deletion
When in doubt, hide it in the woodwork
No Encyclopedic Use
Essays on civility
The basics
Accepting other users
Apology
Contributing to complicated discussions
Divisiveness
Edit at your own pace
Encouraging the newcomers
Enjoy yourself
Expect no thanks
High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors
How to be civil
Maintaining a friendly space
Negotiation
Obsessive–compulsive disorder editors
Relationships with academic editors
Thank you
Too long; didn't read
Truce
Unblock perspectives
We are all Wikipedians here
Philosophy
A weak personal attack is still wrong
Advice for hotheads
An uncivil environment is a poor environment
Be the glue
Beware of the tigers!
Civility warnings
Deletion as revenge
Failure
Forgive and forget
It's not the end of the world
Nobody cares
Most people who disagree with you on content are not vandals
Old-fashioned Wikipedian values
Profanity, civility, and discussions
Revert notification opt-out
Shadowless Fists of Death!
Staying cool when the editing gets hot
The grey zone
The last word
There is no Divine Right Of Editors
Most ideas are bad
Nothing is clear
Reader
The rules of polite discourse
There is no common sense
Two wrongs don't make a right
Wikipedia is not about winning
Wikipedia should not be a monopoly
Writing for the opponent
Dos
Argue better
Assume good faith
Assume the assumption of good faith
Assume no clue
Avoid personal remarks
Avoid the word "vandal"
Be excellent to one another
Beyond civility
Call a spade a spade
Candor
Deny recognition
Desist
Discussing cruft
Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass
Encourage full discussions
Get over it
How to lose
Imagine others complexly
Just drop it
Keep it down to earth
Mind your own business
Say "MOBY"
Mutual withdrawal
Read before commenting
Settle the process first
Don'ts
ALPHABETTISPAGHETTI
Civil POV pushing
Cyberbullying
Don't accuse someone of a personal attack for accusing of a personal attack
Don't be a fanatic
Don't be a jerk
Don't be an ostrich
Don't be ashamed
Don't be a WikiBigot
Don't be high-maintenance
Don't be inconsiderate
Don't be obnoxious
Don't be prejudiced
Don't be rude
Don't be the Fun Police
Don't bludgeon the process
Don't call a spade a spade
Don't call the kettle black
Don't call things cruft
Don't come down like a ton of bricks
Don't cry COI
Don't demand that editors solve the problems they identify
Don't drink the consensus Kool-Aid
Don't eat the troll's food
Don't fight fire with fire
Don't give a fuck
Don't help too much
Don't make a smarmy valediction part of your signature
Don't remind others of past misdeeds
Don't shout
Don't spite your face
Don't take the bait
Don't template the regulars
Don't throw your toys out of the pram
Do not insult the vandals
Griefing
Nationalist editing
No angry mastodons
just madmen
No Nazis
No, you can't have a pony
Passive aggression
Please don't bite the newcomers
POV railroad
There are no oracles
You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
WikiRelations
WikiBullying
WikiCrime
WikiHarassment
WikiHate
WikiLawyering
WikiLove
WikiPeace
Essays on notability
Advanced source searching
All high schools can be notable
Alternative outlets
Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
Articles with a single source
Avoid template creep
Bare notability
Big events make key participants notable
Bombardment
Businesses with a single location
But it's true!
Citation overkill
Common sourcing mistakes
Clones
Coatrack
Discriminate vs indiscriminate information
Drafts are not checked for notability or sanity
Every snowflake is unique
Existence ≠ Notability
Existence does not prove notability
Extracting the meaning of significant coverage
Fart
Google searches and numbers
High Schools
Inclusion is not an indicator of notability
Independent sources
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