Get to Class! -Blogging in IP30

Questions to Think about before beginning:

• Why do people write and edit articles on Wikipedia?
• Who writes articles for Wikipedia (what kinds of people)? Where are they from?
• Why are we creating articles and learning to edit in IP30? And more importantly, what possible benefit can you get from this experience? Here are some ideas.

NOW that you know your assignment (from yesterday, to create a stub article about an RM), let’s use some of the resources that are provided by Wikipedia get a better idea of what is going on. Go to Wikipedia, and select “Questions” from near the top of the screen. Then skim through the sections titled “Welcome”, “Tutorial” and “Cheat Sheet”. An additional source of information is Wikipedia: How to edit a page.

Read what you need to get yourself started.

THEN, if you haven’t done so already, go to an existing RM article, click on “edit”, and then view the code. Copy and paste this into Word. Then replace all content that doesn’t apply with new information that you get from other sources. OR, use the (template currently not working: go to the public drive/IP30 folder) I created to help you out. To see what this template would look like as an article, you can enter parts of it into Wikipedia:sandbox, the place where you are allowed to experiment.

To find out what division your RM is in, try the SARM website (from the main page, click on About Sarm/Members, and then click on one of the 6 division links and see if your RM number is listed). The Saskatchewan Government also provide a map that you can use to find the names of any communities in the RM, as well as the names and numbers of surrounding rural municialities.

For statistical information, try Statistics Canada’s 2006 Community Profile Census site. For other information about the RM of possible, you’ll have to search the internet or other resources.

FINALLY,  copy and paste your article into the place where your article will live. Preview before saving, and then fix/update as needed. Once it is saved, you can still edit and change it if you find mistakes or have new information to add to it. Please fill in the edit summary box before saving new changes.

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