Wikipedia is the most visited encyclopedia around the world. Its articles are being read, edited and written by everybody. There are no guidelines and restrictions for reading content on it, but for editing and writing articles on it, you will be required to check out Wikipedia’s policies first. It has set some strict policies, due to which it does not approve any content on it that is not according to its policies. However, these are the top 5 steps to create a Wikipedia page which you should follow.

Step 1: Go Through Wikipedia Policies

Before doing anything on Wikipedia, apart from reading, you have to keep all the policies of Wikipedia into your consideration. For doing so, you will first be required to go through each and every of its guidelines and policies. For creating a Wikipedia page you will only have to pick a topic and write content in such a manner that fits according to its policies. It is of great importance, as without doing so, your content will not get approved and your efforts will also get wasted.

Step 2: Create a Wikipedia Account

 Before learning how to make a Wikipedia page, you will be required to create a Wikipedia account. For creating a Wikipedia account you have to go on the Wikipedia homepage. After doing so, you will be capable of seeing a “Create an account” option at the top of the homepage. By clicking on it, you have to fill in the required fields that will appear on your screen. After doing so, your account will be made and now you have to move forward to other steps.

Step 3: Make Small Edits

To create a Wikipedia page, it is required to start with little steps. Start reading the articles on Wikipedia, and do a lot of research about the things you are reading whether they are correct and not. If they will be correct, you will gather loads of knowledge by doing so, and if not then you will be righteous to edit them. But, make sure the knowledge you are willing to edit is authentic and up to the mark as if you will try to edit something unusual on it, it will label you for vandalism. Due to which you will find difficulty in editing content later.

Step 4: Make Your Writing Skills Exceptional

Before writing a Wikipedia page, you have to make your language skills efficient, as if there would be found mistakes in your content, people will not want to work with you or your content will not get approved. For doing so, you will have to write sample articles for practicing and read blogs which you will get several from Google. By reading these articles, you will get acknowledged by several points like how to start writing content, how to end it, what makes the content interesting, and what things to avoid.

Step 5: Create a Wikipedia Page

Last but the most important step, to create a Wikipedia page you will have to launch the Wikipedia article wizard by clicking on ‘Click here to start a new article’. By clicking here, a page will get appear on your page which will help ask whether you want to use Wikipedia sandbox for editing and writing articles, click next on it. The next page will tell you about Wikipedia’s copyright, notability, and referencing guidelines, click next on it as well. The third page will tell you about the mistakes that contributors usually make and be provided with three options, from which you have to select your desired one. Now after doing so you will be capable of accessing a page where you could be capable of creating a page.