User:Lifefeed/How to contribute randomly to Wikipedia

1. Go to the Wikipedia: Requests page and look in a category in which you are vaguely interested. Within that category, pick a random article and write about it. Helpful note: Don't pick a math article or anything heavily scientific, almost all of those articles require specialists. A good article to pick is a biography or a military operation, those are straighfoward to write (maybe because the structure tends to be chronological).
2. Check out the what links to here. Google to information, copy down all the basic facts that'll help you write it
3. Get that basics of the who, where, when, what, why, and how.
4. Structure your article. If it's going to be long, get the headings titles in. If it's short, just think about the basic timeline and present the information like that. Divide it up roughly chronologically. You might want/need to include a section at the end that talks about why it all mattered.
5. Start writing. Don't wikify anything yet, just write. Your article has four basic parts: the first-line intro, the extended intro, the body, and the external links.
   1. The first line should simply be a brief statement of facts about your subject. Just briefly tell what it was and when it was.
   2. The extended intro is a small paragraph that should establish notability. For every heading in the body of the article, have about one sentence here that briefly describes that part of the body.
   3. The body is the meat of the article. This is where all of the structured content goes.
   4. For the external links, simply take the 2 to 3 best links from your google search.
6. Now paste everything into Microsoft Word and spellcheck and grammar check it.
7. Paste it into the wikiediting window and preview it. Now wikify it.
8. Once you're satisfied, hit "Save Page." Submit it to the Newest articles section.
9. Now, go find some incoming links for your article. Look at what the aricle links to, see if any of those pages can be edited to point back. Also just do a general search for your article's title, and maybe any easy misspellings.
10. Boom!