Good morning!

My name is Croitoru Simona and today I have the pleasure to welcome you to the world of
Wikipedia.

1. Foundation: To start with, Wikipedia wasn’t always what it is at the moment. It all started as Nupedia
founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, project which was eventually abandoned because it required
that the articles were written and reviewed by highly qualified people, process which needed an
enormous amount of time and disturbed the system.
Jimmy Wales then felt that all this was unnecessary and wanted to develop a system that allowed for his idea
to develop more quickly. Thus he came up with the idea of the wiki system, wiki – hawaiian word for quick.
Therefore wikipedia – the quick encyclopedia went live on january 10th 2001.
2. Now, What is Wikipedia?
Online multilingual encyclopedia.
Aims to distribute a free-content encyclopedia to anyone in need of information of any type.
This quick encyclopedia would allow anyone to access it, write an article of their own and modify (revise or
edit) the content of other articles - which made Wikipedia an instant success growing to an exponential rate.

Most important: The articles are not formally reviewed or edited by anyone.

3. ,,creating a page in wikipedia

Now that we got past our introduction, let me get to the applied segment of our presentation: what if we
wanted to create a page in Wikipedia? Steps and useful tips.

Useful:

When creating new articles an encyclopedic style with a formal tone is important. Wikipedia articles should
have a straightforward, just-the-facts style.
Steps:
1. ACCOUNT

 After entering Wikipedia at www.wikipedia.org you must create an account, as only logged in users
can create an article.

4. TITLE

Title for your new article

In the search box that appears in the right upper corner, type in the title of your article, then click Go, to see
if there is already a page that has the name of your article. If the Search page reports "You may create the
page" followed by the article name in red, then you can click the red article name to start editing your
article.

5.HEADINGS and SUBHEADING(ANTET)

When we first start to write, we need to know that we can’t copy and paste any information from a
source as it is a violation of copywright and the page will be deleted.
Headings are usually available in up to six levels, but the top one is often reserved to contain the same as the
document title, which may be set externally. Some documentation may associate levels with divisional
types, e.g. part, chapter, section, article or paragraph.
6.FORMATTING
The most commonly used is ITALIC and BOLD. BOLD is usually used the first time the name of your
article is mentioned. To make a word bold, add three apostrophes at the sides of the word  ’’’ word ’’’

ITALIC is used for the name of movies, albums, books etc. To make a word italic, use to apostrophes at
each end of the word  ’’ word ’’

ITALIC and BOLD  ’’’’’ word ’’’’’

7.LINKS

Linking is very important, as it shows the reader how to find out more information if they want to know.

Depending on how you want the extension to the link to look like, links can take multiple forms:

Interwiki links can take the form of:

[[wiktionary:article]] which appears as: wiktionary:article

The pipe symbol suppresses the prefix:

[[wiktionary:article|]] → article

Adding text after the pipe allows different text:

[[wiktionary:article|Any text]] → Any text

LINK TITLES

 Without the optional text, external references appear as automatically numbered links . When giving
an embedded link as a source, simply enclose the URL in square brackets:

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1650417,00.html] → [1]

 However, you should add a descriptive title when an external link is offered in the References,
Further reading, or External links section. This is done by adding descriptive text after the URL,
separated by a space and enclosing it all in square brackets:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/ an open-content encyclopedia]  an open-content encyclopedia

 Generally, URLs are ugly and uninformative; it is better for a meaningful title to be displayed rather
than the URL itself.

8.REFERENCES – INLINE CITATION

When writing in Wikipedia we use the references to inform the reader of the source of our text and that it is
a trustul one. Generally references are added directly after the facts they support, at the end of the sentence
and after any punctuation.  <ref>text</ref>

Whatever we put in between the two tags will become visible in the "References" section as the text of
our reference.
9. Because Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone, information should be cited to reliable sources to
evidence it is verifiable and to help the reader who wishes to pursue it in greater depth.

Information obtained from the internet is cited by creating a hyperlink at the end of the relevant
sentence, or paragraph.

10. TO SUM UP

 Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the people who use it.
 What will remain depends upon whether the content is free of copyright restrictions and contentious
material about living people, and whether it fits within Wikipedia's policies, including
being verifiable against a published reliable source.
 Contributions cannot damage Wikipedia because the software allows easy reversal of mistakes and
many experienced editors are watching to help ensure that edits are cumulative improvements.