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Welcome
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Hello, EHLedbetter! Welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are a course instructor leading a class project or assignment. If you're new to Wikipedia or want to learn about best practices for Wikipedia assignments and class projects, we highly recommend that you go through the our training page for instructors.
The training includes instructions for setting up a structured course page and with tools for tracking student work and encouraging peer review. I also highly recommend that you review the advice for instructors page.
If you run into problems or want some feedback on your Wikipedia assignment plans, try posting to the education noticeboard.
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- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page (editing policy)
- Introduction to Wikipedia
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- Visual editor tutorial
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- Wikitext cheatsheet
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- If you are testing, please use the Sandbox to do so.
We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay with us as a member of the community - even after your teaching assignment is finished. Your time, energy, and your contributions will be highly valued and appreciated among us.
asilvering (talk) 18:03, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
- You've obviously got things pretty under control, but I noticed you'd not been welcomed yet, so - a belated welcome to wikipedia! Thanks for your students. They're doing really well and I hope they continue to edit wikipedia after their term is over. However, I do think it's inevitable that you're going to run into some issues, given the topic area they're editing in. I'll leave you a template notice with information about that. -- asilvering (talk) 18:06, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
Introduction to contentious topics
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