Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Creating Content on Wikipedia

  • 06-09-2007 01:29PM
    #1
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey Folks,

    I've signed up to Wikipedia and I'd like to create some new content that's not coevered by Wikipedia already. I've looked through their Guide/Help system for creating new content but it doesn't seem terribly clear. It states that you can request something be created or go and do it yourself but I can't see how this is done.

    Has anyone here ever started a new article on Wikipedia? Can you point me in the right direction?


Comments

  • #2
    forbairt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Content

    I'll assume its english content you want to create ? :)

    you have the word or the phrase enter it in .. if it doesn't exist well you've the option to edit it ...


  • #3
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Ahem, that seems very straightfoward. It is indeed english content. Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction.


  • #4
    forbairt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭forbairt


    yep it is ... its the beauty of it and its use of mod rewrite

    just change the url to your word and away you go ...


  • #5
    BSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭BSmith


    The easy arsed way of doing things is to look to a page on a similar subject to the one you want to publish. Click on the top tab (edit this page), see how things are arranged, what tags are used... then build a new page based on that.

    To start a new page, enter your topic name or sentence, etc exactly as you wish for your page to appear - ie "Irish Aviation History". Click create new page, etc... and build away!

    After three or four articles you get the brief.


Advertisement
Advertisement