Problem Set β
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Improving and publishing a draft. You should end up with a public article that's at least C-class.
- Form
- Look over a couple of good articles for structure, format, and density of wikilinks and citations.
- Think about other media that would enhance your draft.
- Function
- Look at your draft article, and consider what a new reader would want to know about it. How does that map onto your table of contents?
- Get feedback on your draft from a partner or test reader. What questions do they have that they wish were answered? What related articles should this reference, link to, be linked from?
- Create redlinks from existing articles to the final name your article will have. For instance if you're drafting an article about Wang Shenghong, you would turn each instance of his name into Wang Shenghong.
- Article moving
- The ability to move articles normally requires having a few dozen edits and an account that's at least a few days old, since this can otherwise be an easy route for trolling. Ask an existing editor to move your article to its permanent name.
- Once the article is moved, make a few additional edits to clean up and improve it. Be sure you check your talk page over the next few days in case other editors give you feedback. Adding cleanup tags or even nominating an image or article for merging or deletion are normal feedback mechanisms, though they can feel adversarial.
- Ignore all rules. Read the Five Pillars and note that we made this draft in your userspace as bootstrapping for your first time; but in general, as long as you don't mind responding quickly to feedback or pushback from other editors, you can create and edit articles in place.
- Review the good article criteria, and lay out potential improvements to your new article.
- Create a section on the talk page discussing possible next steps: further research or expansion, additional media to add (or get license clearance for), related sources to review and incorporate. Include related pages that could use updates as well. If you wrote about a specific person, organization, or product, list similar topics in the same category that also need work, and link explicitly to that category if one exists.
- If your topic is related to an existing wikiproject, add a relevant item to its list of Open Tasks. For example, if it were related to MIT, add a task to this list.