WikiCU:Community portal

Welcome to WikiCU! This page has information on how to get started editing pages, including some style guidelines and good sources for getting started.

Getting started

• User accounts should be created to edit pages. Take credit (and responsibility) for your edits!
• Read our tutorial for a basic overview
• Discover some helpful editing tips
• Check out the editors bulletin board
• Play around with your editing skills in our sandbox!
• Remember, WikiCU is not Wikipedia!

More advanced research & editing

• Review our research guide and resources for new authors
• Learn how to cite sources
• Learn how to cite alumni degrees and class years
• Check out these books about Columbia
• Consult our guidelines on neutrality and notability, as well as our deletion policy
• Learn how to insert videos
• Refer to our list of templates

Contribute new content

Please help grow WikiCU...

• Create a new article, after searching for whether it exists already
• Review the list of articles to create, and also:

• List of student groups that need articles
• List of people that need articles
• List of Columbia College alumni who need articles
• List of wanted pages, ranked by how much they're wanted

• Expand short pages where appropriate
• Expand stubs where possible (and don't forget to remove the stub tag afterwards!)
• Help with articles under construction
• Help with articles to be cleaned up
• Organise another wikithon!

Help with administration

Please feel free to help out with the following administrative tasks if you have spare time:

• Review the list of recent changes, looking out for spam, egregious deletions, etc.
• Fix any broken redirects
• Fix any double redirects
• Categorise any uncategorized categories (apart from "Main topic classifications")
• Categorise any uncategorized pages (apart from "Index.php" and "Main Page")
• Create any wanted categories (after checking whether appropriate categories already exist)
• On any pages linking to disambiguation pages, clarify the links to refer to the appropriate topic instead
• Confirm account requests (admins only)
• Contribute to any open discussions regarding candidates for deletion (referring to deletion policy if needed)
• Add any unwatched pages of interest to your watchlist
• Update the statistics at our WikiNode