Research Guides: Wikipedia Starter Tips: Editor Tools and Resources

Getting Started

Ways to begin building your Wikipedia editing skills:

Citation Hunt Tool
Citation Hunt is a tool for suggesting articles with missing citations to be added
All articles with unsourced statements
This is a category within Wikipedia to help keep count of the total number of articles with the {{citation needed}} template
All articles lacking sources
This category within Wikipedia includes all pages marked as needing references by {{Unreferenced}} and exists primarily as an aid to bots and other automated processes

Wikimedia Commons: Monthly Photo Challenge
Encourages participants to try new photographic subjects and techniques while improving the repository of free images
Wikipedia Manual of Style
The official editorial guidelines for Wikipedia content
Wikipedia Task Center
Find a task that suits you, read the appropriate background pages, and be bold!
Wikipedia Userboxes
User boxes are an optional way to add information to other Wikipedia editors information about yourself and/or your interests
Wikipedia WikiProjects
WikiProjects are groups of editors who coordinate their editing work to focus on a particular event, subject, type of content, etc.