Tutorial 02: Wiki editing

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This is the second tutorial for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.

Overview

This tutorial:

1. teaches basic wiki editing skills
2. introduces advanced wiki editing skills

Wikiversity account and topic selection

1. Creating an account and log in
2. Sign up to a book chapter topic

Basic wiki editing skills

Golden rule: be bold

1. Edit (visual editor) vs. Edit source (wikitext editor)
2. User pages
3. Editing, adding, and saving text
4. Formatting:
   1. Bold, underline, italics
   2. headings and table of contents
   3. Bullet-points and numbered lists
5. Help:Links:
   1. Wikiversity links
   2. Inter-wiki links
   3. External links
6. More info:
   1. Wikitext cheatsheet: pdf1 | pdf2
   2. Wikiversity help
   3. Wikipedia editing basics (Youtube videos)

What should my user page look like?

There is no set format, but here's some examples:

• User:NUMBLA0371
• User:Jtneill/Test15 | User:Jtneill/Test16

Advanced wiki editing skills

Some more advanced wiki skills to be covered in future tutorials:

1. Working with images
2. Working with tables
3. Feature boxes
4. Social contributions
   1. Editing other pages
   2. Communicating via talk pages
5. Watchlist
6. Notifications
7. Giving thanks
8. Hidden comments

Topic development

1. Quickstart tip: Insert the starting template
2. Topic development guidelines - Marking criteria

Next steps

By the end of Week 2:

1. Sign up for (or negotiate) a book chapter topic

By end of Week 3:

1. Develop an initial chapter plan (topic development) consisting of:
   1. main headings
   2. bullet-points about key points for each section

Recording

• Tutorial 02 recording (2020)

See also

• Motivation and emotion book
• Lecture 02: Historical development and assessment skills
• How to use Wikiversity
• Instructor notes
• Topic selection (Previous tutorial)
• Physiological needs (Next tutorial)