 Hi, it's Hannah and this video is going to talk you through how to make your very own Wikipedia article So before you do that log into your Wikipedia account and come to the homepage So you'll see your logged in so I've got my username blue rhino 3 at the top there And just one important thing to note before you can publish any new article You've got to have had your account for at least four day and four days and made at least 10 edits All right, so to make a Wikipedia article you draft this article first in your sandbox So come to the top panel on the right hand corner and click sandbox And you can see edit below this line So to make and save your sandbox you need to have at least one line of writing This is my new sandbox and then to save it press publish page Create a sandbox publish page So this is what's happened here So now I'm going to edit and I'm going to make an article for the book artful by Ali Smith So artful is a 2012 novel by Ali Smith published by Penguin Books So this is the introductory statement about the book So I'm going to make this stand out. So I'm going to make it bold and italicized And it's a 2012 novel by Author Ali Smith. So I'm going to create links between Wikipedia articles so input here Ali Smith's got it author and Published by Penguin Books. So we'll see there's a link Yep, British Publishing House And I was shortlisted for the inaugural Gold Smith Prize. So I'll also link this Here we go British Literary Award for Novels and I need to add a citation here to show Where I got this information from so I go to this tab, which is the Gold Smith Prize 2013 You can see artful by Ali Smith is there and To insert the citation Copy the url art with command command copy Go back to my sound box Press the site button Go to the automatic Paste it select generate and then remember to press insert that's something I always forget to do So here we go. That's inserted and This is showing the notability for the book So it was shortlisted for a literary award and it's by a really well-known author Ali Smith Right, so now I'm going to write a bit about the plot So to do that I'm going to put a new heading plot And I'm going to put Some information about it Okay, so I've copy and pasted some information into the plot that I wrote up earlier and now I'm going to site it and add some links between Wikipedia pages so remember to keep your language neutral and Remember that citations are really important So you should aim to have at least three citations on a stub article like this that we're creating So we've already left linked Ali Smith at this top of the page. So you won't need to add another one We can add a link for Oxford University So I'm going to add a reference where I found this information from So copy the URL Go to the end of the sentence press site Paste generate And insert and this is all just giving some background information about Book so we can link to the Guardian National newspaper and I've put a quote in here from someone. So I've got to add my citation where I got the quote from So it's by Select site again automatic generate Insert so now I'm just going to add some links. So kind of link for Shakespeare William Shakespeare and add a link for Jackie K And so when I was looking at making this page, I also looked at examples for other novels. So Another novel by Ali Smith like has this layout. So you've got the plot introduction the references and Reception so I'm going to add another section at my heading And this time I'm going to use bullet points. So I'm going to use a bulleted list I'm going to type in comments From critics Tell us from a critic at the independent So I need to add a reference for this critic at the independent so site insert should also add a link for the independent and then a reference First author At the Guardian, but we've already used this Guardian reference before so when we click site, we can select reuse This one So last thing to do is that a heading for the references And then also we can add some some categories. So again, this is the three lines next to the magic pen So I'm going to add a Scottish literature. I'm going to just add that category apply changes So I'm going to click my mouse here select insert template Infobox book book name when you go for book name and author and language So the author is Ali Smith It's an English and The name is artful So that insert and you can see we've got the beginning of a jet info box here. So to save this I'm going to click publish changes added information Infobox categories links and citations Publish changes and now here we have a draft for a page and you can see our references have come up at the bottom here Thanks for watching and I hope this was helpful