Talk:An Article Start to Finish: Creating an Article in a Wiki
From Extension Collaborative Wiki
Stream of consciousness capture...
- Determine the keywords that people will use when searching for the topic of your article. Very important first step. Try some searches on Google and see what your words return. What you find is your competition.
- Search the eXtension wiki to make sure that an article on your topic doesn't already exist
- Construct a title that reads well and contains the most significant keywords from your keyword research
(Just capturing these thoughts here. Probably belong in first week lessons.) --Kevin 11:28, 1 November 2006 (EST)
Moved the following text from the main lesson page, for safe keeping. Cmcastagnero 13:03, 7 November 2006 (EST)
Go over Agenda (first slide) The Goal (second slide) Want people (the public) to be able to find the eXtension information To get to the information people will most likely come from a search engine, so we want to be near the top of the list
"Google Juice" (forth slide) Creating Titles(fifth slide) Search first, before you start a new article make sure there's not already an article about what you are writing, don't duplicate but add on or create a complimentary article, so a search first to see what else is there Key words, when you search you usually don't type in a full sentence, but the primary words you are thinking about, so make sure those words are in the title, they don't have to be really short, they can be 200 characters, keep it close to the subject matter Upstyle capitalization, the words in the title are all going to start with a capital letter unless they are under 4 characters so they look consistent and neat, so they look nice when they go public, be careful when the titles are long that you continue to put capitals in, but the whole word should not be capitalized Length, doesn't have to be very short, over 200 characters, don't create crazy made up words to make it shorter, include more words so they know the content Don't create Hierarchy, if you work with other people to write an article by sections or my an outline when it's time to make the wiki use specific title, not just a chapter or date, it may be the 17th thing in you article but they are searching for it by key words or content Linking to an article (sixth slide) if you are working on a article and you have other links with information use the double brackets for the link as you are writing if you have an outline or something similar you can use a "pipe" (line in between the Real Title and Chapter) to but the chapter
(Remember to see if the participants have any questions)
Demonstrate in the Wiki to create a new page go to the sandbox on the CoP wiki, you can be on any page of the document, you enter brackets, ex: this is my new page, then save it, you'll see a red link which is a link with nothing behind it, click on it and say "this is a new page in the wiki" working in the same key words as the link, that's basically a new page, the page is started so anyone can discuss it or edit it Another way to do it is click on new page and create a title, that's not necessarily linked from another page, type in the title and it takes you right to an edits page Another way is while in the editing page, put brackets around as a title and that would create another page within the page, you don't really want the upstyle capitals is the paragraph so you can us the double brackets with the piping
eXtension rules like Wikipedia having rules, eXtension has its own rules find them by going to help, eXtension manual of style, it's a good place to start-has editing and examples
have them play around with the Manual of Style page and ask questions if there are any
