How to contribute
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Educators Wiki is a collaborative space where art teachers can share their concerns, knowledge and experience with other people involved in the same field.
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Who can use this wiki?
The main goal of the Educators Wiki is to promote quality art education and energize the process of learning by encouraging experienced professionals to share their knowledge and skills.
Educators Wiki comprises all areas related to art education, creating a network of professionals to build a collective body of information and promote interactive involvement.
It's important to remember that the mission of this website is to promote quality education. Therefore, the focus of the content published in this wiki should be quality not quantity.
To prevent acts of vandalism and irresponsibility, only registered users may create and edit content on this wiki. Similarly, we ask that anyone who detects an act of vandalism or rudeness by users editing pages to make the fact known by way of the contact form.
Conduct and usage guidelines
Anyone is welcome to take part in Educators Wiki. Logically, however, there are some basic guidelines we should all follow:
- Be respectful with the opinions and contributions of your colleagues in an effort to promote constructive, civilized debate.
- Be mindful of your editing style and try to avoid spelling mistakes and typos.
- Try to stay on the subject.
- Make sure the resources you use for your contributions are from trustworthy sources.
- Act responsiblly—remember that this wiki will be used by others as a way to participate and as a place for educational resources and support.
Creating new articles
All registered users are invited to post new articles on the Educators Wiki. Before you create articles or content of any type, please keep the following points in mind:
- Make sure the article doesn't already exist by using the search tool or consulting the categories and sections of the wiki.
- Consider the purpose of the website and decide whether the content you want to add falls within the scope of the wiki.
- If the information you publish comes from other sources, make sure you include your references in the article and in Resources to ensure the integrity of the content and to allow other users to consult it.
- If you copy content directly from other sources, make sure the license of the original work you incorporate is compatible with ours and that no copyrights are violated.
- Be neutral when you publish or change a text. All points of view are welcome on Educators Wiki since each of our experiences helps us to see things in a different way. It's important for users to be open minded and to avoid any possible controversy.
Improving already existing articles
When you create content on the Educators Wiki, you should to be aware that all registered users will be able to edit and improve your work.
You can change and improve any content you like by performing certain maintenance tasks. There are a number of aspects that can improve an article:
- Spelling and grammear.
- Adding references.
- Correcting data and adding related information.
- Etc.
If you think the quality of an article is not as good as it should be but don't feel you can improve it yourself, you may report it to the wiki administrator by using the contact form.
All of the wiki pages include a discussion area where educators can talk about the quality of a particular page, ask for opinions, raise doubts, etc.
Organization of content
Each of the sections of the wiki is organized differently depending on the needs of each.
The section "Idea lab” and the section “Multimedia gallery” function as categories which integrate different articles or contents arranged in alphabetical order under the first letter of their title.
When you create a new article or content, you assign it to a category so that other users can find it in the corresponding section.
The sections "Let's talk" and "Resources" work like an article, i.e. if you want to add content you do it right on the same page.
We recommended users to add contents in such a way that the table of contents will appear in alphabetical order. For instance, if you want to add a content called "Forest", you should put it before "Songs" or "Trees". It's very important to pay attention to content order since users will orient themselves by the table of contents.
Experienced users
This wiki is compiled thanks to user-based contributions. Therefore, we invite anyone with experience implementing and editing wikipedias to improve the information about wiki writing and editing, and about the content of the main sections.
