I prepare new Wikipedia articles in Draft, which is part of my WikiNative Studio toolkit. Draft gives my New Page Creation clients a place to read the proposed article, check the facts, propose additions or redactions and recommend additional sources. They can preview their new Wikipedia page in a private wiki environment before publication. The proposed article, its references and the conversation about its wording stay in one user-friendly, editable document created with Wikipedia’s markup language, known as Wikitext. My clients don’t need to know a line of Wikipedia’s code to use it, though. I handle that on my side while my clients interact with a user-friendly word processor with a clean, straightforward user interface.
Preview your proposed Wikipedia page
In Draft, you can work with me to write your proposed Wikipedia page. Read the article with its headings, references and topic links in place, suggest new wording or new content, and leave comments beside the relevant passages. Use Discussion for broader recommendations or a conversation about the article as a whole.
Read through it at your own pace and flag anything you would like to change. The comment wheel records your suggestions, which I review and either approve or respond to with an alternative approach that complies with Wikipedia’s content policies, guidelines and Manual of Style.
Propose additions, redactions and corrections
Select the words you want to discuss in Draft. Leave a comment to ask a question or explain a concern, or use a suggestion to propose replacement wording. You can recommend an addition, identify something you think should be removed and point me towards the sources behind your recommendation.
For example, the article might confuse the year a company was founded with the year it opened a particular office. Select that sentence, explain the distinction and share the published source that establishes the dates. Your proposed correction and its explanation then stay beside the passage they concern.
Try Draft in the working demo below. Select a passage and choose Create comment, or edit the wording and press Enter to save a suggestion. Your contribution will appear in the comment wheel beside the article. The demonstration uses example content and keeps your changes in your own browser. Choose Reset demo to start again.
You do not have to find the perfect wording before commenting. Tell me what needs attention and why. I can check the evidence, work on the wording and respond in Draft. Your suggestions come to me for review before I incorporate changes into the proposed article.
Follow the conversation in the comment wheel
The comment wheel lets you move between review points in Draft. Select a comment attached to a passage, or the highlighted text itself, and Draft lines the two up automatically. You can read the passage, follow my response and continue an open conversation with a reply.
This is particularly useful when several parts of the article need attention. You can discuss a date in one passage and an omission in another without having to repeat the surrounding text in an email. When you come back to Draft, the comments and replies give you the context for continuing the review.
Try the comment wheel in the demo above. Select a highlighted passage and then a different comment to see how Draft lines up the conversation with the relevant words. Open a reply box and add a response to try continuing a discussion.
Read the sources and explore related topics
The numbered references in Draft take you to the citation details, where you can follow a publication link to the source. Topic links let you explore the background to a term, place or related subject. In Draft, those topic links may open Tilcayo Cats, the separate encyclopaedia I built to support the Studio environment.
If you have more coverage to recommend, you can add links or source copies through Library builder and explain which passage they could help with. Library lets you revisit material already saved in your project. I review the sources you suggest and use suitable evidence to develop the article.
Continue working across your Studio toolkit
Click the WikiNative logo at the top left of WikiNative Studio to open your card deck. Discussion sits beside Draft and gives you room for broader questions or a proposal involving several sections. Scratch gives you a place to develop notes, try out wording or even experiment with Wikitext before asking me to consider it.
Return to Draft whenever you want to read the proposed article, review my replies or raise another point. You can take an active part in developing your Wikipedia page through comments, suggestions and source recommendations, while I handle the Wikitext, prepare the article for publication and publish it directly to Wikipedia.
