Help:Copywriting original research

This page is about copywriting Original Research. For how-to create an article in general, see Wikiafripedia:How to create a page.

This page in a nutshell: Original Research should not just be uploaded to Wikiafripedia, it must be copywritten-out in it most suitable namespace within the original research namespaces, and be formatted as articles.

In Wikiafripedia, Original Research is acceptable in Seminar:, Research:, Thesis: or Dissertation: namespaces; these are called scholar namespaces. To copywrite into one of these namespaces, you must be an autoconfirmed user by confirming your email address and making at least three edits to existing article since signed up. Please note that only logged in users can create pages in non-talk namespaces.

This page does not delve into the DOs and DON'Ts of article creation, please see Wikiafripedia:Your first article. For a general introduction to contributing, see Wikiafripedia:Contributing to Wikiafripedia and consider taking a tour through the Wikiafripedia:Tutorial. For a guided process to create an article (and for which these technical instructions will not be needed), see the article wizard and Wikiafripedia:Articles for creation, where a proposed article will first be created as a draft and then submitted for review before possible "publication" by a move to the appropriate namespace.

How to copywrite

All Wikiafripedia Original Researches are copywrited by accessing a research topic that does not yet exist (i.e., the topic you want to create) usually by typing into your URL of your browser's address bar as follow: wikiafripedia.org/wiki/Research:Topic and then hit return/enter, you will be taken to a page that says "Wikiafripedia does not have a page with the exact title". From here creation is simple: upon clicking "create" (or the pencil icon), you will be transported to a blank page. Once there, start typing your research text and then click the Save changes button. That's it; the research topic should have been created. This method of creating a page is called changing a URL.

The methods explored below describe how to access a non-existent research topic with varying level of convenience based on user device, in order for you to follow these steps to copywrite your research topic.

Method 1: previewing a red link

1. Click edit on any accessible page;
2. Surround the research title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., [[Research:Title]];
3. Click the Show preview button (not the Publish changes button);
4. Click on the red link revealed.

Method 2: saving a red link

Often you will want to have easy continuing access to a research topic you create. One way is to save a link at your user page, or sometimes, on your user talk page. Once you save a red link there, and create the topic, the link will turn blue and will be accessible anytime you visit it.

1. Go to your user or user talk page (both permanently linked at the top of any Wikiafripedia page on desktop);
2. Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., [[Thesis:Title]];
3. Click the Save changes button;
4. Click on the red link revealed.

Method 3: searching (desktop users only)

Enter the research topic that you seek to create in the search field and search. If the research title you entered does not already exist, is not technically restricted and is not creation protected, the resulting page will i) tell you that it does not exist; ii) advise that you can create the page, and iii) will provide a red link to the page title. It will normally appear in the following form (it may vary depending on the skin you have set):

   There were no results matching the query.

   You may create the page "Dissertation:Title".

Namespace considerations

Wikiafripedia data structure

Namespaces
Subject namespaces		Talk namespaces
0	(Main/Article)	Talk	1
2	User	User talk	3
4	Wikiafripedia	Wikiafripedia Talk	5
6	File	File talk	7
8	MediaWiki	MediaWiki talk	9
10	Template	Template talk	11
12	Help	Help talk	13
14	Category	Category talk	15
710	TimedText	TimedText talk	711
828	Module	Module talk	829
3000	Portal	Portal talk	3001
3006	Draft	Draft talk	3007
Scholar namespaces
3008	Research	Research talk	3009
3010	Seminar	Seminar talk	3011
3028	Dissertation	Dissertation talk	3029
3030	Thesis	Thesis talk	3031
Currently unused
2300	Gadget	Gadget talk	2301
2302	Gadget definition	Gadget definition talk	2303
3002	Book	Book talk	3003
3004	Education Program	Education Program talk	3005
Virtual namespaces
-1	Special
-2	Media

Main page: Wikiafripedia:Administration § Data structure and development

Articles versus other namespaces

Only encyclopedia articles are created without a namespace prefix. All pages outside of the article mainspace are prefixed by the namespace followed by a colon before the title, e.g., your user page's title starts with the prefix  User: The various namespaces are shown in the table to the right.

The red links one would thus create for any page that is not an encyclopedia article must start with the namespace prefix. For example, to create a proposed article in the Draft namespace, it would be created via a red link to [[Draft:Research Title]].

Category namespace exception

One exception to the instructions above regarding saving or previewing a red link is that links to pages in the Category namespace will not work unless a colon is also placed before the namespace prefix (missing this step will result in the page being placed into the category you typed). For example, if one wanted to create a category for "UniUyo research", the red link would be invoked by previewing or saving the code: [[:Category:UniUyo research]].

File namespace exception

The file namespace is another exception in that media files are not created directly by any of the methods discussed above. Rather, media files are uploaded, which is done through a separate and dedicated interface, accessed by clicking on "Upload file" from the tool menu on the left of a page. (Please note that media files that are in the public domain or which bear a free copyright license compatible with the free licenses borne by Wikiafripedia's content should be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons rather than to Wikiafripedia, so that all Wikimedia/Wikiafrimedia projects have access to the media file.)

Restricted namespaces

There are four namespaces that are restricted from creation except by administrators and certain other users with higher access levels: Special pages, MediaWiki pages, Module pages and Education Program pages. However, any user may create talk pages of these namespaces, except for those in the Special namespace, which do not have direct talk pages at all.

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Mapping research to namespace

1. Undergraduate research project = Research namespace
2. Master's student research project = Thesis namespace
3. Ph.D research student project = Dissertation namespace
4. Seminar paper = Seminar namespace

See also

• Wikiafripedia:Original research
• Wikiafripedia:WikiProject Original Research
• Wikiafripedia:Community portal#Help out

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