Caregiving and dementia/Wiki training/Wiki skills

Wiki skills edit

  1. Create an account: To contribute wiki content, it is recommended that you:
    1. Create a Wikimedia Foundation account
    2. Sign the participants page
  2. Orientation: Get to know your way around Wikiversity:
    1. Wikiversity welcome for newcomers
    2. Guided tours of Wikiversity
  3. Editing
    1. Editing, Previewing, and Saving
    2. Edit summaries
    3. Practice by editing the Sandbox
    4. Practice by editing your user page
  4. Content organisation
    1. Namespaces
      1. Main space - Resource pages
      2. User space
    2. Talk pages
    3. Subpages
    4. Categories
  5. Formatting - see MediaWiki markup summary
    1. Headings and Table of Contents
    2. italics, bold, and bold and italics
    3. Numbered lists and bullet-points
  6. Links
    1. Internal
    2. External
  7. Images
    1. Embedding
    2. Sizing
    3. Positioning
    4. Captioning
    5. Searching on Wiki Commons e.g., see commons:Category:Dementia
    6. Uploading
  8. Tables
  9. Help: Further help and documentation is available e.g.,:
    1. Wikicode Cheatsheet
    2. Help: Help documentation on Wikiversity
    3. Help: Help documentation about MediaWiki
    4. Colloquium: General discussion page about any aspect of Wikiversity