Any Wikipedia-authors out there?

[Ed]

Someone has just asked me to write some pages for Wikipedia.

I know this is all pretty simple....but wondered if we had anyone on the forum who had done it a fair bit and was able to give some pointers on the best way of going about it.

cheers

eib

[JimC]

...some pointers on the best way of going about it.

exaggerate, promote rumour and myths, and slyly rip off copyright material from elsewhere?

[STEVEB]

Hi,
I was coauthor of the Wikipedia Mermaid dinghy page, coming up with text was not too hard but there is a lot of tricky formatting to get through!
Steve

[Pat]

Go and play in the sandbox first.

You can also set up your own mediawiki as easily as wordpress - I've got them both on my laptop.

[jpa_wfsc]

Hi

yes its not too hard I have authored a couple of things and editied a couple of others. I was aiming to do more but then we started to discuss upgrading our CVRDA classes database and I thought, that would be a better place to do these things.

Just have a go - use the sandbox to practice in!

Main tip - as for any multimedia / internet authoring - decide what you are going to say b4 you start. Get all the images and copy that you wish to use before starting.

Then, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... _Wikipedia

enjoy!