Hi! I just signed up for my Wikipedia account and have done my first two edits. (I added a note about "The Inner Light" winning the 1993 Hugo and added character descriptions to the article for "You're Under Arrest!".)
I don't know how to start a new article, but there are several I want to do. I need to do a little research on them, but what I would like to do is:
Notable Filk Artists:
Heather Alexander Cecilia Eng Dr. James Robinson (fromerly Dr. Jane Robinson)
Card Captor Sakura character proflies:
Sakura Kinomoto Li Syaoran Tomoyo Daidouji Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue Eriol Hiiragizawa Touya Kinomoto Kaho Mizuki Keroberos (Kero-chan) Ruby Moon and Spinel Sun
Role Playing Game Titles (if they aren't already there)
Champions Big Eyes, Small Mouth
Filk Albums
Cold Iron (Leslie Fish) The Undertaker's Horse (Leslie Fish) Chickasaw Mountain (Leslie Fish) Firestorm; Songs of the Third World War (leslie Fish) Fossil Fever (Dr. James Robinson)
Fandom Terminology
E+T Lemon Relationshippers
Any suggestions on how to go about doing this once the research is done.
Michael P. Hopcroft wrote
Hi! I just signed up for my Wikipedia account and have done my first two edits. I don't know how to start a new article, but there are several I want to do. I need to do a little research on them, but what I would like to do is:
Hello and welcome. It is easy to start articles. Just type in something like [[my new article]] in any page, and you will see a displayed 'red link' (or possibly 'blue link', if the named article is there). Click it and you will get an edit box. There is some important advice about copyright, in particular, below the box. We encourage editors to 'learn by doing': save your article, check the box to get it on your watchlist, and see it evolve as others work on the format, add to it, and so on.
There are plenty of style guides on the site. But as we say, 'Be bold'. Newbies are very much tolerated.
Charles
Without doing a lot of work looking up all the things you mention, a few thoughts:
Jump in, go ahead and write a few of these articles and see how other editors react. Some, may, for example, improve your articles, others may list them for deletion for various reasons.
Don't get all excited if everything does not go perfectly. If you are refered to a Wikipedia policy, go there and try to puzzle it out.
Have fun.
An alternative would be to carefully study all the Wikipedia policies before making any edits, but even our policy wonks couldn't stand that.
Fred
From: "Michael P. Hopcroft" michael@mphpress.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:20:43 -0700 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] New contributor and article plans
Hi! I just signed up for my Wikipedia account and have done my first two edits. (I added a note about "The Inner Light" winning the 1993 Hugo and added character descriptions to the article for "You're Under Arrest!".)
I don't know how to start a new article, but there are several I want to do. I need to do a little research on them, but what I would like to do is:
Notable Filk Artists:
Heather Alexander Cecilia Eng Dr. James Robinson (fromerly Dr. Jane Robinson)
Card Captor Sakura character proflies:
Sakura Kinomoto Li Syaoran Tomoyo Daidouji Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue Eriol Hiiragizawa Touya Kinomoto Kaho Mizuki Keroberos (Kero-chan) Ruby Moon and Spinel Sun
Role Playing Game Titles (if they aren't already there)
Champions Big Eyes, Small Mouth
Filk Albums
Cold Iron (Leslie Fish) The Undertaker's Horse (Leslie Fish) Chickasaw Mountain (Leslie Fish) Firestorm; Songs of the Third World War (leslie Fish) Fossil Fever (Dr. James Robinson)
Fandom Terminology
E+T Lemon Relationshippers
Any suggestions on how to go about doing this once the research is done.
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
"Fred Bauder" fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote in message news:BE8E4969.E9C3%fredbaud@ctelco.net... [snip]
An alternative would be to carefully study all the Wikipedia policies before making any edits, but even our policy wonks couldn't stand that.
The main problem being that by the time you finished reading all the policy documents, the ones you read eariler would have been altered and new ones would have been added to your list.
Oh, the joys of wiki :-)
One way to get started is to put all of those article titles into your user page. This way you'd have a convenient place to go to for article creation. Feeling in the mood to write? Go to your user page and click on one of your own red links. Or perhaps you'll see that a link you've made has turned blue and you can see hat someone else has written.
Have fun!
[[User:UtherSRG]]
On 4/22/05, Michael P. Hopcroft michael@mphpress.com wrote:
Hi! I just signed up for my Wikipedia account and have done my first two edits. (I added a note about "The Inner Light" winning the 1993 Hugo and added character descriptions to the article for "You're Under Arrest!".)
I don't know how to start a new article, but there are several I want to do. I need to do a little research on them, but what I would like to do is:
Notable Filk Artists:
Heather Alexander Cecilia Eng Dr. James Robinson (fromerly Dr. Jane Robinson)
Card Captor Sakura character proflies:
Sakura Kinomoto Li Syaoran Tomoyo Daidouji Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue Eriol Hiiragizawa Touya Kinomoto Kaho Mizuki Keroberos (Kero-chan) Ruby Moon and Spinel Sun
Role Playing Game Titles (if they aren't already there)
Champions Big Eyes, Small Mouth
Filk Albums
Cold Iron (Leslie Fish) The Undertaker's Horse (Leslie Fish) Chickasaw Mountain (Leslie Fish) Firestorm; Songs of the Third World War (leslie Fish) Fossil Fever (Dr. James Robinson)
Fandom Terminology
E+T Lemon Relationshippers
Any suggestions on how to go about doing this once the research is done.
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
PS. What's your username?
On 4/22/05, Stacey Greenstein stacey.nj@gmail.com wrote:
One way to get started is to put all of those article titles into your user page. This way you'd have a convenient place to go to for article creation. Feeling in the mood to write? Go to your user page and click on one of your own red links. Or perhaps you'll see that a link you've made has turned blue and you can see hat someone else has written.
Have fun!
[[User:UtherSRG]]
On 4/22/05, Michael P. Hopcroft michael@mphpress.com wrote:
Hi! I just signed up for my Wikipedia account and have done my first two edits. (I added a note about "The Inner Light" winning the 1993 Hugo and added character descriptions to the article for "You're Under Arrest!".)
I don't know how to start a new article, but there are several I want to do. I need to do a little research on them, but what I would like to do is:
Notable Filk Artists:
Heather Alexander Cecilia Eng Dr. James Robinson (fromerly Dr. Jane Robinson)
Card Captor Sakura character proflies:
Sakura Kinomoto Li Syaoran Tomoyo Daidouji Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue Eriol Hiiragizawa Touya Kinomoto Kaho Mizuki Keroberos (Kero-chan) Ruby Moon and Spinel Sun
Role Playing Game Titles (if they aren't already there)
Champions Big Eyes, Small Mouth
Filk Albums
Cold Iron (Leslie Fish) The Undertaker's Horse (Leslie Fish) Chickasaw Mountain (Leslie Fish) Firestorm; Songs of the Third World War (leslie Fish) Fossil Fever (Dr. James Robinson)
Fandom Terminology
E+T Lemon Relationshippers
Any suggestions on how to go about doing this once the research is done.
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l