Wikipedia Starter Tips

The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized in five "pillars":

This step-by-step guide brings together some of the best resources to help you get started in Wikipedia. I

Wikipedia is the world's most successful online encyclopedia, now containing 6,080,624 English language articles. It is probably the largest collection of knowledge ever assembled, and is certainly the most widely accessible.

The Wikipedia project strives for a neutral point of view in its coverage of subjects, both in terms of the articles that are created and the content, perspective and sources within these articles. However, this goal is inhibited by systemic bias created by the shared social and cultural characteristics of most editors, and it results in an imbalanced coverage of subjects and perspectives on the encyclopedia.

This is an index of lists of red links for WikiProject Women in Wikipedia. Each link on the lists is a woman, or a work created by a woman, that may qualify for an article on English Wikipedia

Our largest encyclopedia overwhelmingly recognises the achievements of white men. For physicist Jess Wade, fighting this bias has been an uphill battle

Women make up 15-20% of the editors on Wikipedia. Katherine Maher, who heads up its parent organisation, discusses how she is creating a more gender-balanced community.

Amid COVID-19, an annual campaign has a renewed purpose. #1Lib1Ref calls on librarians around the world to strengthen a key informational resource: Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is an invaluable research tool, and more — and higher quality — references make Wikipedia more reliable and useful. Each year people from around the world join the 1Lib1Ref initiative to make small but meaningful contributions to this goal.

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.