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@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.
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