To create a user account on Wikipedia, follow these steps.
Once you are logged onto wikipedia, your user name appears in the wikipedia menu bar.
Click your user name in the menu bar to visit to your "User" page. Then click the "Start the User Page" link, add text to the blank page, and save it.
On your user page, create a link to an existing page in Wikipedia.
The link will now appear in your user page.
Edit your user page
The link will appear in your user page.
To create a new page in Wikipedia, you just write the link, such as [[my new page]]. Then when you click the link you can edit the new page.
However, Wikipedia editors monitor all new pages, and very quickly delete any pages that are not worthy of being articles.
For this reason, I recommend that you develop all new pages under your user space. Later when they are ready to be published you can create the page in the main Wikipedia encyclopedia space.
Example: [[User:Joegrohens/article_notes]].
The link to your subpage will appear in your user page.
Note: You can make the name of the link shorter (hiding the "User:username/" part), by adding an alias to the link code.
Example: [[User:Joegrohens/article_notes | My Article Notes]] This page link is now displayed as My Article Notes
Note: The vertical bar is called a "pipe" character (from Unix), and it is above the Enter/Return key on most keyboards.
You can use the wikipedia Help pages section in [ | Images and Media] to learn how to work with images.
The basic syntax for inserting an image is this: [[Image:NameOfYourImage.jpg|thumb|Caption]]
Replace the word "NameOfYourImage" with the real name of your image file. Take care to spell the file extension exactly. It might not be jpg, it might be jpeg, JPEG, or PNG, or GIF, or something else. I don't think BMP files will work.
Replace the text for "Caption" with a figure caption.
Note that the word "thumb" is short for "thumbnail". It reduces the size of your image, puts it in a frame, moves it to the left, and provides the caption box.
To create a user account on Wikipedia, follow these steps.
Once you are logged onto wikipedia, your user name appears in the wikipedia menu bar.
Click your user name in the menu bar to visit to your "User" page. Then click the "Start the User Page" link, add text to the blank page, and save it.
On your user page, create a link to an existing page in Wikipedia.
The link will now appear in your user page.
Edit your user page
The link will appear in your user page.
To create a new page in Wikipedia, you just write the link, such as [[my new page]]. Then when you click the link you can edit the new page.
However, Wikipedia editors monitor all new pages, and very quickly delete any pages that are not worthy of being articles.
For this reason, I recommend that you develop all new pages under your user space. Later when they are ready to be published you can create the page in the main Wikipedia encyclopedia space.
Example: [[User:Joegrohens/article_notes]].
The link to your subpage will appear in your user page.
Note: You can make the name of the link shorter (hiding the "User:username/" part), by adding an alias to the link code.
Example: [[User:Joegrohens/article_notes | My Article Notes]] This page link is now displayed as My Article Notes
Note: The vertical bar is called a "pipe" character (from Unix), and it is above the Enter/Return key on most keyboards.
You can use the wikipedia Help pages section in [ | Images and Media] to learn how to work with images.
The basic syntax for inserting an image is this: [[Image:NameOfYourImage.jpg|thumb|Caption]]
Replace the word "NameOfYourImage" with the real name of your image file. Take care to spell the file extension exactly. It might not be jpg, it might be jpeg, JPEG, or PNG, or GIF, or something else. I don't think BMP files will work.
Replace the text for "Caption" with a figure caption.
Note that the word "thumb" is short for "thumbnail". It reduces the size of your image, puts it in a frame, moves it to the left, and provides the caption box.