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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia — each article is meant to provide its readers with "a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject", from a neutral point of view. While Wikipedia is not a place to publish original research, nor an original synthesis of the research literature, you may do this on Wikipedia's sister projects.
To improve reader understanding of research using Wikipedia, we added a link to a Research help page in the reference section of 10,000 articles under WikiProjects Medicine and Military history. During the trial period there were 24,862 pageviews (228/day) to the Research help page, of which 12,838 (133/day) came from the targeted Wikiprojects.
First, speaking as an experienced & long-term Wikipedia contributor I believe something like this is long overdue. Having watched articles on Wikipedia evolve over the last 13-14 years, I have come to the conclusion that no school system anywhere in the world does a satisfactory job of teaching its students how to perform research.
This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem.
This page is within the scope of the Wikipedia Help Project, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's help documentation for readers and contributors.If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
For example, Cornell University's online guide to APA style uses citations from Britannica in some of its examples. However, because of Wikipedia's unique nature, there are also some rules for conducting research that are special to Wikipedia, and some general rules that do not apply to Wikipedia.
Academic studies – a list of academic studies examining the use of Wikipedia in education, including papers on the methods and outcomes of assignments. Course pages If this is your first time using the course page system, you should begin by going through the orientation for educators , which covers best practices for Wikipedia assignments.
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors know if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article.