Citing sources

The Citing Sources Learning Project functions as a workshop on how to improve the quality of cited sources in WikiMedia projects. Citing sources is a basic skill for wiki editors. This is a support project for the Wikiversity Wikiversity:Service community.

Covered topics:

1. How to set up or participate in Wikiversity projects that seek to improve the cited sources for WikiMedia project articles.
2. Single source verification. Making sure that a source really supports the statement made in a WikiMedia project article that cites that source.
3. Multiple source verification. Just because a cited source makes a claim, that does not mean that the claim has a factual basis. Tracking claims made in sources to verifiable data.
4. When are there too few or too many sources cited? How to start and run a campaign to find more sources. How to "off-load" and archive excess sources to Wikiversity.

See also

• APA style
• MLA format - learning project
• m:WikiTextrose
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Research resources
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
• list of past and current source/verification projects at Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
  • m:Wikicite (was Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikicite)

List of interested learning activity developers

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1. Tomaschwutz Seems to be a good idea of learning by doing: I want to learn about citing, so I can create an activity on my way of learning.

External links

• Evaluating Sources of Information - Hypertext Workshop
• Searching for information
• Zotero citations plugin