Wikipedia service-learning courses/110

When working on wikimedia project, the contents is shared by many users. So you have to discuss and collaborate with others. Wikimedia provides several ways of communicating and certain policies about how a good communication can take place.

Talk pages

• What is a talk page?
  • Wikipedia:Talk page
• How can I use user pages effectively?
  • Talk page guidelines
• What can I do when a talk page grows too long?
  • put parts in an archive
  • or Refactoring talk pages
• How can i search for other users?
  • Use the special page Special:ListUsers.

Concept questions

• Why is it so important to sign messages on talk pages using "~~~~".
• How can you send a notice to another user?
• How response messages formatted and indendet?
• What is {{quotation|quoted material}} used for in talk pages?
• What is the "E-mail this user" link on the bottom left of users talkpage or userpage good for?
• Why should you use English, even on your user talk page?

Assignment

1. Take notice of article talk pages when you are browing mediawiki pages.
2. Look at other user pages
3. Leave a note on Foobars user page. (You might need to create this page, "Foobar" is a placeholder)

Policies

What is a policy?

• m:Policy#Q_.26_A Policy - Meta
• Policy and guideline pages

What are the most important policies in common in Wikimedia projects?

• m:Policy#Policies_which_apply_to_all_Wikimedia_projects
• w:Wikipedia:Civility

What are policies specific to some Wikimedia projects?

• m:Policy#Policies_which_apply_to_multiple_Wikimedia_projects
• Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia:No_original_research
  • Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria (you may use it under some circumstances)
  • Wikipedia:Verifiability
  • Wikipedia:Consensus
  • Wikipedia:Dispute resolution

• Wikiversity

• Wikibooks

What are the most important differences to the policies in the Citizendium wiki?

• CZ:Why Citizendium? - Citizendium
• CZ:Fundamentals - Citizendium