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!
• Consult our guidelines on neutrality and notability, as well as our deletion policy
• Learn how to insert videos
• Refer to our list of templates
• Remember, WikiCU is not Wikipedia!

Style guides

• Learn how to cite sources
• Learn how to cite alumni degrees and class years

Research resources

• Research guide and resources for new authors
• Books about Columbia

Administration

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

• Review the list of recent changes, looking out for spam, egregious deletions, etc.
• Fix any broken redirects
• Fix any double redirects
• Expand any short pages if you're able to make useful contributions
• Categorise any uncategorized categories (apart from "Main topic classifications")
• Categorise any uncategorized pages (apart from "Index.php" and "Main Page")
• Add any unwatched pages of interest to your watchlist
• Create any wanted categories (after checking whether appropriate categories already exist)
• Create any wanted pages (within reason) (see also the list of articles to create and the list of clubs that need articles)
• 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)
• Contribute to any articles under construction
• Contribute to any articles to be cleaned up
• Update the statistics at our WikiNode
• Organise another wikithon!