Tools

Writing better articles

• Nominating and reviewing articles for GA review (Good Article review) is a great way to improve Wikipedia! Here is a Cheatsheet for GA reviews
• Article quality assessment criteria and importance

Saving time on boring tasks

• User scripts
  • Citehighlighter - this highlights the references in an article so you can see how solid they are. Doesn't recognise indie, peer reviewed scholarly journals so don't trust absolutely.

Templates for writing articles

It can be easier to start a new article from a template. Will add to this list.

• Academic bio (adapted from User:DrThneed)

Templates that do cool stuff

Going to add stuff here.

• Visualisations of characteristics of articles created by Wikipedians using Wikidata properties. (URL)

Tools for managing WikiProjects

I am learning how to set up a WikiProject over at Wikipedia:WikProject Electronic literature. Here are some tools I have liked:

Generate lists from Wikidata

Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literature/Electronic literature works that won the New Media Writing Prize

Setting up a template for a new project

You can view (and edit) the source at Template:WikiProject Electronic literature.

The way to use the template is to add it to Talk pages of any Wikipedia page that it's useful for WP Electronic literature to keep an eye on. Just paste the code in the squiggly brackets near the top of the Talk page.

Code

Result

Electronic literature NA‑class This article is within the scope of WikiProject Electronic literature, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Electronic literature on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Electronic literatureWikipedia:WikiProject Electronic literatureTemplate:WikiProject Electronic literatureElectronic literature articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Electronic literature

This user is a member of the Indie Task Force.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women artists.

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