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User:John Cummings/write Wikipedia articles

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???? have been made available under a CC-BY-SA license. This guide will help you create missing English language Wikipedia articles for the missing ??? using the official descriptions, it is written for Visual Editor to make the process as simple as possible. A map showing ???? with English Wikipedia articles can be found here.
Step 1: Choose an article to create
  1. Click this link and press Run to see a map of the ???? that don't have English language Wikipedia articles.
  2. Click on a point you would like to create an article for.
  3. Click on the Official description web link.
  4. Copy the text on the ???? description page.
Step 2: Create the Wikipedia article
  1. Go to English Wikipedia and make sure you are logged in.
  2. Type the ??? name you would like to create from the map into the search bar.
  3. Click the link at the bottom: containing...
  4. If the article already exists skip to Step 5: Adding the article to Wikidata.
  5. If the article does not exist click the red link, to switch to Visual Editor click Create at the top of the editing window.
  6. Paste the text copied from the UNESCO website into the blank article.
  7. Add links to other articles and alter the text to fit with the style of Wikipedia (some of the description pages do not fit the style of Wikipedia precisely)
  8. Add the category ?? ??
Step 3: Attribute the text
  1. At the bottom of the page write References and give it a Level 2 heading
  2. Click Insert and then Template on the menu
  3. Paste Open-source_attribution into the box, click the first option and then click add template
  4. Add the following information to the fields provided
    1. Title: ???
    2. Publisher: ???
    3. Document URL: The URL of the description on the ???? website
    4. License statement URL: ????
    5. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0???
  5. Save the page using 'Created page using CC-BY-SA text' in the edit summary.
Step 4: Link from other Wikipedia articles
  1. Go to the Talk Page for the article and click edit and paste {{WikiProject ????|class=|importance=}} into the edit window and save the page.
  2. In the Wikipedia search bar paste the name of the new article
  3. Click the link at the bottom that says containing...
  4. Add links from any articles that mention the new article you have created
Step 5: Add the article to Wikidata
  1. Click on the Wikidata item for the article you just created on ???
  2. Find the box that says Wikipedia.
  3. At the bottom of the list add the language code (en) and the name of the article.
  4. Click Save
  5. Done :) The map will update in around 15 minutes, you will be able to see a link to your article on ???this map??? of ???? with English Wikipedia articles.
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