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Hello, students! This page is a quick guide to working on Wikipedia for people here as part of school and university projects.. Hopefully, if you're here with an organized project, you'll know what you're intended to do - whether that be creating a new article on a personal topic, or editing a specific one.
This is a quick overview of templates. Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced templates. A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input.
This template can be added to userpage of a student in a class working with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. It will provide instructions that help the student move from choosing a project to writing a draft to making it live and submitting it to DYK.
Welcome to Wikipedia! It appears that you are here to participate in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we highly encourage you to go through our training page that's specifically created and catered for students such as yourself:
Wikinews: Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that works through collaborative journalism through user-created content. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying, "On Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an encyclopedia article."
This template should always be substituted by prefixing "subst:" inside the template code. Thus use {{subst:Creation|user/u or ip/anon}} rather than {{Creation|u/user or ip/anon}}. This template presumes that its use will be for a first response to an unindented post, and thus automatically indents one colon for all paragraphs. If you require ...
WikiProject Templates}} *deleted* (as of Jan 2010) see TfD discussion Restored with coding that bans categorization onto template talk pages unless it is shown that it is a maintenance template for other templates, which tend to be more important to the project.
Creating a WikiProject talk page banner can range from simple to somewhat complicated. Project talk banners are generally created at Template:WikiProject Name (e.g. {{WikiProject Birds}}). The simplest way to create an adaptable talk page banner is to use the template {{WPBannerMeta}}. Using this template, a simple talk page banner might look like: