Wikiversity:Introduction
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Wikiversity is a wiki, which means you can edit the webpages right now.
What is Wikiversity?
Wikiversity is a community devoted to collaborative learning. We build learning resources from the ground up and also link to existing internet resources. Wikiversity uses wiki software, which makes collaboration easy. Wikiversity participants are constantly improving the educational content of Wikiversity's pages. See also more about Wikiversity.
How can I help?
You can help. Don't be afraid to edit—anyone can edit, and we encourage you to be bold! Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, and fix it.
You can't break Wikiversity. Anything can be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit, and help make Wikiversity the best learning center on the Internet, but we also should not forget to contribute our own efforts to perfect it!
Video tutorial
Watch a 2 minute-long video introduction to Wikiversity which shows how to edit pages. Available formats:
- QuickTime (QuickTime info) (directly download)
- watch an OGG version with external player (OGG info). (download)
- Watch on this page. Click the blue play button at the bottom of the video window, below (it looks like this:
). Note: the default (java-based) option might not be best for you.
Make your first edit right now:
- Click the edit button for this page, above
- Type a message in the edit window
- Click save page to save your writing (for further experiments use the sandbox)
...or "show preview" to test your changes
- Please, no profanity, libel, or personal attacks.
- Please do not remove the header message (it's the stuff in {{ }} marks)
Test edits
Learning helps to keep one's mind young.
Wikiversity is amazing. My friends and I are in the eighth grade, and we go here all the time for homework help and other resources. We especially love that you can edit and make your own pages, because people all over the world have different talents and skills. I love that I can get help with French!
Amazing site. Amazing knowledge.
I was very excited to find this site online. I want to take the technical writing course.




