Help:Adding Articles

Select Articles and Analyis Link
Select from here and it will open in a new tab Category:Articles and Analysis

Select whichever media choice you wish to update from the top menu. For our example I have chosen openDemocracy

You will see as screen as shown below. You need to insert the latest article between the About and the first article in the list.



You will notice just below the heading "About" there is a link to openDemocracy. If you select the link it will open the openDemocracy website in a new tab

Look through openDemocracy and choose an article to add to the wiki. There is no hard and fast rule on what should be selected. It is a judgement on whether it helps the campaigning effort. For example when I'm looking at Jonathan Cook I might only include one in ten of his articles as being appropriate to a campaigning wiki. Let's say for the sake of this example I decided I want to include the below article:



Click on the article to open it.

Adding the article text

 * 1) Go back to the Wiki openDemocracy page and click edit.
 * 2) Place your cursor after the about text and before the start of the present article and press return a few times to give yourself some working space. So in our example you would be posting your new article before the line ==It's time for Labour to understand the Conservative Dilemma - Jon Trickett 11 August 2018==
 * 3) Go back to the openDemocracy article and copy the heading. Click back to the wiki and enter to equals signs, paste the article header and add a further two equals signs. So now you will have this: ==The enemy between us: how inequality erodes our mental health==
 * 4) Also get the date and the author of the article and add that information as well. So now you have ==The enemy between us: how inequality erodes our mental health - Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson 12 August 2018==
 * 5) Then go back to open democracy and copy the first couple of paragraphs of the article. It doesn't have to be two. It can be whatever seems sensible to gain an essense of the article. But not too much or we run into copyright laws. In this case I chose the first 2
 * 6) On a new line below the heading you added earlier, paste the two paragraphs.
 * 7) At the end of the new text add three dots (...)
 * 8) Now your screen should look something like this:

==The enemy between us: how inequality erodes our mental health - Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson 12 August 2018== When people are asked what matters most for their happiness and wellbeing, they tend to talk about the importance of their relationships with family, friends and colleagues. It is their intimate world, their personal networks that mean the most to them, rather than material goods, income or wealth.

Most people probably don’t think that broader, structural issues to do with politics and the economy have anything to do with their emotional health and wellbeing, but they do. We’ve known for a long time that inequality causes a wide range of health and social problems, including everything from reduced life expectancy and higher infant mortality to poor educational attainment, lower social mobility and increased levels of violence. Differences in these areas between more and less equal societies are large, and everyone is affected by them...

Note the 3 dots I have added to the end of the paragaraphs I pasted.

Addd the link to the article

 * 1) Copy the text in item 2 below to the start of a new line. Make sure you get the [ symbol at the end with your copy!
 * 2) Go to the openDemocracy article and copy the address of the article
 * 3) paste the address after the text you copied from point 2 (same line)
 * 4) Add a space after the article URL (address) you have just pasted and add the words "See more"
 * 5) Copy the text from item 7 below and paste it at the end of the line
 * 6) ]
 * 7) Now your screen should look something like this:
 * 1) Now your screen should look something like this:

==The enemy between us: how inequality erodes our mental health - Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson 12 August 2018== When people are asked what matters most for their happiness and wellbeing, they tend to talk about the importance of their relationships with family, friends and colleagues. It is their intimate world, their personal networks that mean the most to them, rather than material goods, income or wealth.

Most people probably don’t think that broader, structural issues to do with politics and the economy have anything to do with their emotional health and wellbeing, but they do. We’ve known for a long time that inequality causes a wide range of health and social problems, including everything from reduced life expectancy and higher infant mortality to poor educational attainment, lower social mobility and increased levels of violence. Differences in these areas between more and less equal societies are large, and everyone is affected by them... See more

Save your work and it should look like this: