 Hello, my name is Ewan McCandrew and today I'm going to run you through how to edit Wikipedia So first thing we need to do is Taking our browser We're going to type in Wikipedia first hit click On that and we're now on Wikipedia's front page Now it's important to note that a lot of people skip this page And it's there's a lot to it. There's People often just go straight through to the article. They're interested in so if we just have a quick look at What's on this front page? We have a featured article over here the phantom toll booth and These are generally the gold standard of articles on Wikipedia the highest importance and the highest quality There's a at the moment. There are about 5,000 to 6,000 articles on Wikipedia that are featured article quality and They are usually used to sort of fit in with events and anniversaries or Just providing general interest We have an in the news section on the right Following down we have a did you know section and And an on this day section and you can nominate a page that you're working on To be included in the did you know and on this day sections There are guidelines if you click through to on this day or did you know? We can go down to today's featured picture taken from Wikipedia's Sister project with a media commons and these pictures are generally of the highest quality on Wikipedia commons as well We can go down and we've got some useful links the community portal Which has as it says bulletin board area various projects You can get involved in about if you'd like to help fix grammar or Spelling on some other pages or if you'd like to be involved in some of the more notable projects There we are fix spelling grammar fix wiki links check and add references add an image for fix original research issues and so on Little notices further on wiki projects you can get involved in Wiki project whales there awaken the dragon Lots of information there so if we go back We have a help desk area if you want to ask for questions To help out with any page you're working on Got some questions down here and Some replies always remembering to leave your username and the end There we go. So if we go back We also have links through to Wikipedia sister projects and Good thing to remember is that Wikimedia foundation support about 12 projects here. We see them and of course Wikipedia is obviously the most well-known out of these but we have some Very good projects here the Wikimedia Commons project that has about 31 million images openly licensed and Other media stored on its repository there We also have wiki books where you can create instructional textbooks and manuals wiki quote of course wiki voyage free travel guide free content library wiki source a lot of excellent material on there and wiki data the free knowledge base of Structured secondary data a lot of these projects all interlink with one another to create a sort of holistic whole And we've got a few more over here wiki species and witch Henry so a Lot of good information on that front page