[Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Brian McNeil
Piggybacking on the Wikipedia workshops stuff,... I've got an Australian university using Wikinews as a class assignment for final-year students. I could really, really do with an incredibly concise editing guide. They're not showing a lot of 'clue' when it comes to markup, filling in templates,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Keating
Have a look at: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/BookshelfIn particular, the Welcome to Wikipedia booklet - it takes people gently through the basics of editing and has a handy quick reference guide. Obviously it's based on Wikipedia not Wikinews but

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Roger Bamkin
The other is the cheatsheet ... google will find it for you Roger On 14 May 2011 10:05, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/BookshelfIn particular, the Welcome to Wikipedia booklet -

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing help

2011-05-14 Thread Brian McNeil
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 12:21 +0100, Roger Bamkin wrote: The other is the cheatsheet ... google will find it for you Winner! A cheat sheet is like flypaper for lazy students. :D On 14 May 2011 10:05, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at: