 Hello, my name is Euan McCandrew and this is the first part of a two-part guide about how to edit Wikipedia using Wikipedia's new visual editor interface. If you need to pause the video at any point during the recording, then please do so. We will be creating a user page which will show you the basics of how to edit Wikipedia. So the first thing we need to do is to open up our internet browser. Now I'm using Mozilla Firefox, but other browsers are equally good. So once we've got our browser open, we're going to do a search for Wikipedia and first hit click on it and now on Wikipedia's first front page. Once we're on the front page, we now need to create our account. So I'm going up to the top right hand corner and clicking on create account. Now I have an account called Stingelhammer, but I'm going to create a new one so that you can see exactly all the steps involved in creating a new account. So we need to create a username and it's up to you whether you want it to be your real name or something a bit more abstract, a pseudonym. Both are equally fine. So create a username and a password, put your password in again and you can put your email address if you like, but this is optional and it might ask you to put in some capture text just to confirm you are not a computer. So hopefully that's right and I can create my account. There we are. It's already come up with a suggestion. No, thanks. Maybe later. Okay, now that we've created our account, we can see at the top of the page there is a link in red called UNRED and that's my user page. If there is a red link as we have for UNVID and Talk and Sandbox, it means that that page doesn't exist as yet. To create those pages, we have to go in, add a bit of text and then they will turn to blue clickable links once we've saved them. So before we do that, we need to make sure that the visual editor interface is enabled as it's not enabled by default and to make sure that the visual editor is enabled, we go to preferences. At the top right preferences, click on that. Okay, and now we're in the preferences menu. So you use the name UNVID and I can go into the editing tab, third one along and once I'm in the editing tab, what I need to check is this last tick box where it says temporarily disable the visual editor while it is in beta. Now we want that to be unticked. So if it has a tick, remove that tick because we want the visual editor to be enabled. Once you've unticked that last box, then we need to look at that drop-down menu underneath it and we want to change that to show me both editor tabs. So the tick box should be unticked and the drop-down menu should say show me both editor tabs. If you've got that, great, you're ready to move on. If you don't have the drop-down menu, don't worry about it. Just make sure that that tick box is unticked and then we're going to go down to the bottom left corner to save our preferences. Click on it, save. Okay. That means that we should now have access to two kinds of Wikipedia editor, the source editor, which is the old-fashioned Wikipedia editor, which has a lot of markup language and the easier, newer visual editor interface, which is a lot more like you may be used to if you have ever done any blogging. So now that we've changed the preferences, we can go and create our first user page, clicking on our name link at the top. So all I've done there is clicked on the red link for my username, just where my cursor is. Just clicking on that has taken me to this page. And if you've got that, all you need to do now is click on this first bullet point, start the user page. So it says start the user UNVID page. Your page will say something different because you'll have a different username. I'm going to click that first link and then it's offering me the chance to switch to the visual editor. But I don't want to do that just yet. So I'm going to click the bottom option which says start editing. Now hopefully you're on the same screen as me and you can see a pink bar at the top which says if you want to draft an article, please create a user space draft instead of creating it here and then below that we have a box. Now this box is the source editor. This is the markup editor. There are still a few things that the markup editor does better than visual editor. But we can do just one thing in this editor and then we can move on to visual editor from here. All I want you to do is to type a bit of code that is two squiggly brackets. This is a new user and then two closing squiggly brackets. So if you've got the two squiggly brackets at the beginning followed by this is a new user and then two squiggly brackets at the end, that's all the code that we're going to do. If we've typed that in, scroll down the page to the bottom and where it says edit summary, we're going to describe the change that we've just made to this page. So the change we've made is we've added a new user box and any time we make an edit to Wikipedia, we describe what a change, what the change has been to Wikipedia's page. So added a new user box, a new user, so added a new user box. That's all we want to type, added a new user box. Once we've done that, we can click save. Okay, and hopefully your page looks exactly like this. You've now got your username at the top and a box that says this user is new to Wikipedia. Please assume good faith, remain civil and become patient, helpful and polite while he, she, gets accustomed to Wikipedia and its intricacies. Now all this is just so that if you make an edit that other users on Wikipedia know that you're not trying to make any mistakes, you're just learning the ropes and it's kind of like an L plate if you're you're just learning the ropes and it's up to you how long you keep that in on your user page. You can remove it at any point. So now that I've created my new user page and added that I am a new user by including that box, I can add some details. Now it's up to you how much of your own life you want to share on Wikipedia, like most social media sites. It's not necessarily a good thing to include too much personal details. For example, home address or bank account details, but it's nice to sort of like share some information so people get an idea of who you are and what you're interested in working on within Wikipedia. So but that's entirely up to you. So what I've done is I've created some text in Microsoft Word. Other word processing sites are available and you can draft your user page or draft an article for Wikipedia in a word processing site and copy it across if you want, if that makes life easier for you, or equally you can just type straight into Wikipedia's draft space which is the sandbox, which I'll show you a bit later. But I've created some text here that I'm going to copy across using my cursor to highlight the text I want to take across. Okay, I'm going to include all these details. It's up to you how much you include. So control C. So holding down control and pressing C, that copies the text. Go back to my browser. Now copy and pasting is easier if you use the old source editor. So I'm going to click on edit source. Go into that source editor and there's the box. And we're going to place our cursor underneath and press control V. Now all my text from the Word document is being pasted across and I've split all my details into paragraphs with a heading each time and that's very like how we structure a Wikipedia article. Splitting it into paragraphs, sections and making sure there's a heading for each section. So I'm happy with that. I can click on show preview if I just want to double-check how it's going to appear and as it says this is only a preview your changes have not yet been saved, but it's handy just to let me see how it would look once I did save it. And I'm okay with that just now because I can go in shortly to make some more changes. So I'm going to type in a little edit summary to describe the change. So added text to my user page and every time we make a change on Wikipedia we describe that change. Just a few words just to describe that change. Click save. There. So here we have a user page with a new user box and some text. But it's all quite jumbled up and we need to separate it out and now we're going to use visual editor to do that. So, so we're going to spend the first