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This wiki serves as a resource for research done by students in Washington State University's World Civilizations 110 and 111 classes. The wiki allows you to benefit from the work done by students in previous semesters and to build on that work by adding your own research.

Like Wikipedia, the WSU World Civilizations wiki collects information about a wide range of topics. Unlike Wikipedia, the WSU World Civilizations wiki requires particular attention to the sources of that information. All information from sources should vbe documented with in-text citations and a Works Cited. Every entry in a Works Cited should be accompanied by a short paragraph that assesses the reliability of the source.

We welcome your contributions. There are two fundamental rules that we would like you to follow:

1. The material that you submit should be your own. When you use the exact wording (quotation) or ideas (paraphrase) from a source, you should give credit to that source by including a citation that refers to an entry in your Works Cited. In addition, if you borrow the exact words from a source, you should of course make that clear by using quotation marks.

2. Each of the sources that appears in your Works Cited must be accompanied by a paragraph that assesses its reliability. What are the source's strengths? Its weaknesses? Who produced it and for what purpose? What are the credentials of the person who produced it? Might that person have particular biases that you can identify?

Here are some resources that will help you to navigate and use the WSU wiki:

WSU wiki Introduction: [1]

Creating New Pages in the WSU wiki: [2]

Ready to begin?

Be sure that you are logged in. If you aren't, click on "log in" at the top of this page. Return to this page (World Civilizations wiki). Create a new page by adding a link to the bottom of the text in this page, like this:

using the wiki's "internal link" notation:

  some_page_name

Note that spaces are not allowed in page names; use underscore characters instead, as shown above.

1. VERY IMPORTANT: Use the "Save page" button to save your changes into the wiki. The wiki will display the page you just edited. On that page, the link to the new page will be shown in red. This indicates that the page linked to does not exist.
2. Click on the red link. The wiki will display an editing box for the new page.
3. Type in content for the new page.
4. [VERY IMPORTANT] Use the "Save page" button to save your changes into the wiki.