Once you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

• Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your " signature" (your username and a date stamp). The button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
• If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.

The main policies and guidelines can be found at the following pages:

• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:No original research
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style

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  Wikipedia - Working with Images
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  Wikipedia - Writing about people
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  Wikipedia - Writing about Places
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  Wikipedia - Making Connections
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  Wikipedia - Basic editing presentation

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  Instructor Basics, How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool (Wiki Education Foundation)
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  Case Studies, How instructors are teaching with Wikipedia (Wiki Education Foundation)
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  Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
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  Illustrating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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  Editing Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)
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  Evaluating Wikipedia brochure (Wiki Education Foundation)

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  Using talk pages
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  Choosing an article
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  Citing your sources
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  Avoiding plagiarism
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  Classroom handout - moving out of your sandbox
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  Polishing your articles
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  Classroom handout - Submitting an article to the Did You Know process

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  Editing Wikipedia Articles Biographies
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Chemistry (Wiki Ed)
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Ecology
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Environmental Sciences (Wiki Ed)
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Genes and Proteins (Wiki Ed)
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Medicine
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Psychology
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Sociology
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Species (Wiki Ed)
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  Editing Wikipedia articles on Women's Studies

Art+Feminism Beginner Training Videos

• 1. The Gender Gap
• 2. Basic Rules of Wikipedia editing
• 3. Anatomy of a Page
• 4. Your First Edits: Userpages and the Sandbox
• 5. Meet-Up Pages
• 6. Adding Citations
• 7. Adding Images to Articles
• 8. Creating New Articles