Hi, it's Hannah and this video is going to
talk you through how to make your very own Wikipedia article. So
before you do that log into your Wikipedia account
and come to the home page, so you'll see you're logged in so I've got my username
BlueRhino3 at the top there and just one important thing to note
before you can publish any new article you've got to have had your account for
at least four day and four days and made at least 10 edits.
Alright so to make a Wikipedia article you draft this
article first in your sandbox. So come to the top panel in the right
hand corner and click sandbox and you can see
'edit below this line' so to make and save your sandbox you need to have at least
one line of writing: 'this is my new sandbox'
and then to save it press publish page,
created sandbox, publish page. So this is what's happened here. So now
we're going to edit and I'm going to make an article
for the book Artful by Ali Smith. So, Artful is
the 2012 novel by Ali Smith and published by Penguin books.
So this is the introductory statement about the book.
So I'm going to make this stand out so I'm going to make it
bold and italicized and it's a 2012 novel by author Ali
Smith so I'm going to create links between Wikipedia articles.
So input here Ali Smith, Scottish author
and published by Penguin books so you'll see
there's a link, yep British publishing house,
and it was shortlisted for the inaugural Goldsmith Prize.
So we'll also link this.
Here we go British literary award for novels and I need to add a citation here
to show where I got this information from so I go to this tab which is the
Goldsmith Prize 2013. you can see Artful by Ali Smith is there
and to insert the citation copy the URL so command copy,
go back to my sandbox, press the cite button, go to the
automatic, paste it, select generate
and then remember to press insert, that's something I always forget
to do. So here we go that's inserted and this is showing the notability for
the book. So it was shortlisted for a literary
award and it's by a really well-known author,
Ali Smith. Right so now I'm going to write a bit
about the plot so to do that I'm going to put a new
heading,
plot, and I'm going to put some information about it. okay so I've
copy and pasted some information into the plot that I wrote up earlier
and now I'm going to cite it and add some links between
Wikipedia pages. So remember to keep your language neutral and
remember that citations are really important so you should aim to have at
least three citations on a stub article like this that we're
creating. So we've already linked Ali Smith at the
top of the page so we won't need to add another one.
We can add a link for Oxford University.
So I'm going to add a reference where I found this information from.
So copy the URL, go to the end of the sentence,
press cite, paste, generate and insert.
And this is all just giving some background information about
a book. So we can link to the Guardian,
national newspaper and I put a quote in here from someone
so I've got to add my citation where I got the quote from.
So it's by,
select cite, again automatic, generate, insert.
So now I'm just going to add some links so
can add a link for Shakespeare,
and add a link for Jackie Kay.
And so when I was looking at making this page I also looked at examples for other
novels. So another novel by Ali Smith has this
layout. So you've got the plot introduction, the references
and reception. So I'm going to add another section,
add my heading
and this time I'm going to use bullet points. So I'm going to use a bulleted
list.
I'm going to type in comments from critics.
That is from a critic at the Independent.
So I need to add a reference for the critic at the Independent.
so cite,
insert, you should also add a link for the Independent,
and then a reference
for this author at the Guardian but we've already used this Guardian
reference before so when we click cite we can select
reuse this one. So last thing to do is have a
heading for the references and then also we can add some some
categories. So again this is the three lines next to
the magic pen, I'm going to add a Scottish literature.
I'm going to just add that category, apply changes, so I'm going to click my
mouse here, select insert, template,
infobox book, book name, I'm going to go for book name and author
and language. So the author is Ali Smith, is in English
and the name is Artful. Select insert and you can see we've got the beginning
of the infobox here. So to save this I'm going to click
publish changes,
added
information, infobox, categories, links and citations.
Click publish changes and now here we have a draft for a page
and you can see our references have come up at the bottom here.
Thanks for watching andI hope this was helpful.