[Wikimedia-l] teaching people how to edit Wikipedia

[Heather Ford]

Thanks, Ziko. That's really interesting and sounds like an effective way of getting them started. 

I'm curious what kinds of problems people contact you about when they start editing for real? 

On Apr 12, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Myself, I have a presentation which shows a basic wiki principle; I
> noticed that showing the same thing onwiki would make me jumping too
> much from page to page.
> Showing Wikipedia functionalities then onwiki I call "Wikipedia
> surfing" (version history, talk pages etc.).
> If it is a workshop with the intention to make people edit then I
> create a "pseudo encyclopedia" on user subpages. That's a number of
> simplified Wikipedia articles with hardly any markup. From article to
> article, the complexity and amount of wikisyntax grows. The newbies in
> groups of 2 correct the language and content (I put in some errors for
> them).
> I prefer that because editing real WP makes people anxious, and I want
> to be undisturbed with the newbies.
> Kind regards
> Ziko
> 
> 
> 
> 2012/4/11 Heather Ford <hford at ushahidi.com>:
>> Have a quick question for some work I'm doing on Wikipedia literacy:
>> 
>> What resources are folks using to teach others how to edit Wikipedia? At Wikipedia Academies etc?
>> 
>> Thanks in anticipation :)
>> 
>> Best,
>> Heather.
>> 
>> 
>> Heather Ford
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Heather Ford 
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