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 5. Scroll down to the edit box and follow the instructions of the Userspace draft page. There will already be text in the edit box, as mentioned previously in Formatting pg 13, this is the Mark Up language of Wikipedia which creates the title and headers for the article. If you want to have a look what the page will look like in the real Wikipedia click Show Preview.

Start by placing the name of your article in the “’New article name goes here“ text box and then start writing the content of your story, immediately after this where it says “New article content”. This is standard formatting for Wikipedia articles, the first mention of the title of your article should be in bold.

Alternatively you can highlight a word, click the bold button in the tool bar and it will add the ‘” ‘” [sic] Mark Upmark up [sic] to the word you have higlighted.

Eg–‘” [sic]Margaret Lawrie’” [sic] was a respected anthropologist of the Torres Strait.–As shown in the edit box

-Margaret Lawrie was a respected anthropologist of the Torres Strait.–As shown in Preview

If you want to use any formatting that doesn’t have a quick use button in the tool bar (such as Bold, Italics, Links) refer to the formatting table mentioned previously, pg 13 to find out the Mark Up code to use. Have a look at other similar Wikipedia pages for guidance on layout, style and type of content.

6. Linking: When you have your content written down go through your article and look for possible subjects to create links to so people will be able to go from your article to other articles on related topics.

Highlight the related topics in your text and click on the link button in the tool bar. A pop up box will appear letting you know if an article exists in Wikipedia. If it does you can link to it by clicking insert link. The link button will add  to your highlighted subject in the Wiki edit box e.g. Torres Strait. You can also link to external websites by doing the same steps, placing the URL of the site you want to link to in the text box under Target page or URL, click on the To an external web page tick box and click Insert Link.

If you have any related links to external web pages also list them under == External links == at the end of your article. Use the mark up text [URL Name of Website]. Eg. State Library of Queensland.

More detailed information on Linking can be found through Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Linking

7. Referencing: A good article has lots of sources and you must cite at least one published, specific, third party source for the information you are using, such as a book or a page on a reputable website. Please provide a URL or link if you wish to use an internet source. Personal knowledge is not acceptable.

The easiest way to reference is by using the refToolbar. To reference a sentence or a paragraph, put the cursor at the end of the sentence or paragraph that you wish to reference. Then click on the “cite” button at the top right, underneath the article heading. This will bring down the template on the left hand side, which will allow you to choose the citation type eg newspaper. When you have filled out the template, click on insert. You may prefer to do this another Wikipedia Training Manual