<div dir="ltr"><span id="inbox-inbox-docs-internal-guid-1d5479b4-aa08-12c4-bdfd-57d6cfa3f0fc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello Everyone,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for participating in the ICANNWiki Edit-a-thon and joining the mailing list. This email will be the first of many as we make progress on the site and add to your learning. You can exchange ideas and questions here on the mailing list. For now, we’ll focus on getting started and learning how to contribute regularly.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here are a few steps we want to make sure we do:</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you haven’t signed up for an account, do so </span><a href="https://icannwiki.org/Special:RequestAccount" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read over the</span><a href="https://icannwiki.org/ICANNWiki_Values" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> ICANNWiki Values</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to understand the culture of the project. The most important of which are the following:</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Creating articles that are factual--and are referenced. I will give an example of how to reference down below. Please DO NOT use Wikipedia.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making articles that are unbiased. Make sure you aren’t writing with a marketing tone or if you have a personal opinion about a subject, keep it out of the article.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keep the topics on point--should pertain to the Internet, Internet governance, ICANN and other Internet governance forums</span></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Look at other articles to see how they were built. Here are some good examples:</span></p></li><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://sw.icannwiki.org/Habari_Node_LTD" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Habari Node LTD</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:lower-alpha;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://sw.icannwiki.org/.biz" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.biz</span></a></p></li></ol><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When you feel like you’re ready. Think of a subject you want to cover. Search the site to see if its there. If it isn’t an article already, it will show up as a </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redlink</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Click on the redlink to create the page. If the page </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">does have an article</span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, click the ‘edit’ button and get started!</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In order to avoid making this very long, I’ll stop here in hopes that this is enough to get started.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Let me know if you have any questions, I’m happy to help.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Asante,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jackie</span></p></span><br class="inbox-inbox-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px"><font color="#000000">Jacqueline Treiber</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">  .</font></span><font style="font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(122,122,122);font-size:11px"> </font><font color="#7a7a7a" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px"> Co-Executive Director, ICANNWiki </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px"> .</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px">  </span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px"><font color="#38761d">M</font><font style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"> </font><font color="#000000"><a href="tel:%2B19713032765" value="+13605801923" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">+1</a>5039805019</font></span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px"><font color="#000000"> </font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> . </font></span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px"><font color="#38761d"> E</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">  <a href="mailto:jackie@icannwiki.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">jackie@icannwiki.com</a> </font><font color="#000000"> .</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">  </font><font color="#38761d">W</font></span><font color="#e42215" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px">  <a href="http://icannwiki.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">icannwiki.com</a> </font><br></div></div>