Motivation and emotion/Wikiversity

Wikiversity skills

This page provides a rationale for use of Wikiversity by students and documents Wikiversity skills which are useful for completing the motivation and emotion major project.

Relevance of Wikiversity

University graduates are, among other things, trained to be professional knowledge-workers. Within their discipline, they should be able to access, synthesise, collaborate, and publish knowledge informed by psychological science. A graduate should be able to openly solicit and respond to feedback about their professional ideas and understandings. Heading into a global, cross-cultural workplace, psychology graduates should be able to work with a wide variety of different people, face-to-face and online, through a range of different, changing, and unfamiliar environments and platforms. For more information, see graduate attributions for the motivation and emotion unit.

Wikiversity is a simple, open knowledge internet platform. It provides learners with an opportunity to collaboratively develop and improve ideas and to share and present information in rich ways, including through text, images, links, multimedia, and quizzes. Wikiversity provides a way for students to publish their work and use their work as a demonstration of their professional capability which is often particularly useful when applying for professional roles.

No-one is compelled to use Wikiversity, so feel free to suggest alternatives that better suit your needs.

About Wikiversity

1. Welcome
2. Introduction
3. Guided tours
4. Orientation

Getting started

1. Create a Wikiversity account
2. Practice editing in a sandbox
3. Share about yourself and areas of interest on your Wikiversity user page
4. More information about using Wikiversity is provided during lectures and tutorials (e.g., see Tutorial 01 and Tutorial 02), but you can also teach yourself by being bold and tinkering

Basic skills

1. Be bold Assume good faith
2. Editing
   1. Edit (visual editor)
   2. Edit source (wikitext editor)
   3. Edit summaries
3. User page
4. Text formatting:
   1. Bold
   2. Italics etc.
5. Structure
   1. Headings
   2. Table of contents
6. Lists
   1. Bullet-points
   2. Numbered lists
7. Links
   1. Internal
      1. Wikiversity
      2. Wikipedia
   2. External
8. Figures

Advanced skills

1. Feature boxes
2. Hiding content - Using edit source, wrap content to be hidden in code like this:
   <!-- stuff to be hidden -->
3. History and undoing
4. Notifications
5. Social contributions and talk pages
6. Tables
7. Thanking
8. Preferences
9. Quizzes
10. Watchlist
11. Word count (Google Chrome add-on)

See also

• Intro to editing
• Help
• Wikitext cheatsheet: pdf1 | pdf2
• Wikiversity help