Introduction to Contributing on Wikipedia

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3. What is Wikipedia? Come on! E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y knows Wikipedia! How did you even graduate? (Wikipedia is the biggest online -free!- encyclopedia, led by an enormous community of people.. including you in some minutes!)
4. https://www.wikimedia.org/ Who runs Wikipedia?
5. Wikipedia in Numbers This represents the amount of English Wikipedia if printed, using volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica. English Articles: 4.857.499 Total Edits: 767.788.658 Total Users: 24.867.244
6. Why should I contribute on Wikipedia? And many more… (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_to_contribute)
7. Why should I contribute on Wikipedia? And many more… (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_to_contribute)
8. Anatomy of a Wikipedia page https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Anatomy_Poster.pdf
9. How do I create an account? Step 1 Step 2
10. How do I edit an article? You just click the Edit button…
11. How do I edit an article? ...and you start writing! Yes, it’s as simple as that :)
12. Some more details on editing 1. Text Format (paragraph, header etc) 2. Styling (Bold, Italic, Underline, Super/Subscript etc) 3. Create Link 4. Create Citations 5. Create List (bullet/numbered) 6. Insert Media (image, video, table, mathematical formula etc) 7. Edit Table (caption, merge etc) 8. Add Special Character
13. What about Edit source It’s the original editor of Wikipedia, the one that uses Wiki Markup!
14. What should I not do?
15. Source for all Presentation Materials https://en.wikipedia.org/
16. Where do I start from? • General issues: http://goo.gl/LMuvy5 • Programming Languages: http://goo.gl/5E0xoH • Open Source: http://goo.gl/zA4oiZ • Games - Graphics: http://goo.gl/PXieua • Algorithms: http://goo.gl/hahgsV • Web: http://goo.gl/TtsntR • Women in Tech: http://goo.gl/3C6KaU
17. url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0
18. Questions?
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