CHEM 275 & CHEM 475 - Chemistry of Poisons

Step 1: Log into your Wikipedia account: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin

Step 2: Click the "Account" icon at the top-right of the screen, then click "Sandbox" – this is your default sandbox for all projects.

Step 3: Go to the URL for your sandbox, remove everything after "sandbox", then append/your_course_number (e.g. chm275) to the end of the URL and hit enter– this will be the URL for your project-specific sandbox (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:STEMlibrarian/sandbox/chem275)
Note: Wikipedia URLs are case sensitive – be sure to write your course number in all lowercase letters.

Step 4: Click "Start the User:YOUR_USERNAME/sandbox/chem275 page" to create your sandbox.

Note: Custom project sandboxes are not automatically tracked on Wikipedia so make sure you bookmark the page in your browser to easily return to the content...if you don't have a record of the link, you won't be able to return to the page.

Step 1: Go to the entry you would like to edit and click "Edit Source" near the top-right of the page

Step 2: If you do not see the source code for the article, click the pencil icon (near the top-right) to switch from "e;Visual Editing" mode to "Source Editing" mode.

Step 3: Copy all of the source code and paste it into your sandbox. Scroll to the bottom of your sandbox, enter an "Edit Summary" (e.g. Copied content of Sarin article into my sandbox) and click "Publish Changes."

The easiest way to edit a Wikipedia entry is to edit individual sections – this method is easier to manage since you will only see the source code for a specific section and you cannot mistakenly edit other parts of the entry.

Step 1: Go to the section you would like to edit and click "Edit source" to the write of the section heading

Step 2: Make any necessary changes to the section and then click "Show Preview" near the bottom of the screen to check your changes.

Step 3: Add a brief edit summary and then click "Save Changes" to apply those changes to your sandbox or the live entry.

Wikilinks are the easiest links to include in an entry. Simply enclose the word to which you would like to link in square brackets:

Wikipedia tries to match your linked word to the URL of an existing Wikipedia entry. When you preview your edits, any link that has a corresponding entry will appear in blue; if Wikipedia couldn't find a corresponding entry, your link will appear red. For example, University of Rochester would work as a link because it corresponds to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Rochester. If the wikilink had been formatted as [[U of R]], Wikipedia would not be able to find a corresponding match and the link would have appeared in red.

Sometimes you may want to include a wikilink that does not match an entry's URL (usually for the sake of readability). You can do this by including a properly formatted wikilink followed by a vertical bar ("|") and the phrase or term you would like to actually appear in the entry.

The wikilink above would link to the Rochester, New York article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York), but would show as Rochester (no New York) in the article itself – depending on the context, this could improve readability.

External links are added in a similar way to internal links except that you use a single set of square brackets:

For readability's sake, you may want the link to appear as a phrase or term rather than a URL in the entry's text. You can do this by including a properly formatted link followed by a space and the phrase or term you would like to actually appear in the entry.

The link above would link to the library's homepage (https://library.rochester.edu), but would show as River Campus Libraries in the article itself – depending on the context, this could improve readability.

Note: While not required, Wikipedia recommends that you drop the "https" at the start of a link – instead, start the link with "//" as shown above.

Step 1: Search the Wikimedia Commons for an image you can incorporate into your Wikipedia entry

Step 2: Click on an image you want to use and then click "Use this file"

Step 1: Use the Wikimedia Upload Wizard to upload a file to Wikimedia Commons – follow the step-by-step directions in the Upload Wizard

Step 2: You will be asked to provide a description and categories for your image. To find appropriate categories, check out the categories assigned to related images. For chemical compounds the category is typically the name of the compound (e.g. Sarin).

Step 3: At the end of the Upload Wizard you will see a code snippet for embedded images and thumbnail images. Copy the appropriate line of code and paste it into your Wikipedia entry.

Wikipedia has a built-in citation feature which makes it easy to add references for books, articles, and websites. For a complete list of citation templates, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates.

Step 1: Place your cursor where you would like the in-text citation to appear. From the "Source Editing" window, click "Cite" to choose a citation template. Built-in templates are available for books, news stories, journal articles, and websites.

Step 2: Fill out as many citation fields as you can. If you know the PubMed ID or DOI for an article, you can put that number in the corresponding box and click the magnifying glass icon – this will autommatically fill-in many of the fields for you.

Step 3: Assign your citation a name using the "Ref Name" field. This will allow you to quickly insert the same citation later in the entry if needed. A good format for a citation name is often the first author's last name followed by the year of publication (e.g. smith2019). Click "Insert" to insert your completed citation into your entry.

Step 3: To use the same citation again, click the "Named References" button and choose your named citation from the list. This will insert an abbreviated form of your original citation.

If you are working with an existing Wikipedia entry, it will likely already have a reference list in place. If not (or if you are creating a new entry, you need to add a references section at the bottom of the entry.

Step 1: Go to the last section of your entry and click "Edit Section" to get started. At the bottom of the section add the following heading and shortcut token to automatically generate your refernces list: