2011/3/15 Carissa Wodehouse <carissawodehouse(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
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