2011/3/15 Carissa Wodehouse carissawodehouse@gmail.com:
Hi, Yep I do find both of those videos too basic (http://www.howcast.com/videos/317521-How-To-Edit-a-Wikipedia-Article and http://www.commoncraft.com/wikipedia-video). I get the nuts and bolts of how to click around, I know basic html when I see it, and I remember neutral tone and proper citations from college and time in publishing (but gotta love a video on the internet that explains that you need an internet connection).
Lol. Thanks for sharing your experience of those resources.
The Howcast referenced the Wiki:Cite page, which I then find confusing because I don't get when to use each citation method.
Do you find this page useful? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Citations_quick_reference
I personally like the cheatsheet approach -- IMO a high quality video would be designed in parallel with the reference resources that you can go to for further info. Not all collaboratively written help documents are useless, but lots of them suffer from information overload and poor (i.e. no) instructional design.