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** Basic formatting and structure to an article, including bolding article titles, italics, etc

* How to develop the structure for the type of article you expect attendees to be working with, such as biographies, buildings or events.

** The Wiki Education Foundation in North America, has created subject-specific advice for different types of article, that can be found on Commons: [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Education_Foundation_subject-specific_handouts .found on Commons]

** If there is not a handout available for that article type, consider showing editors the structure of high quality articles in the relevant format, such as a Good Article, a Featured Article or a B class article.

* The difference between Visual Editor and WikiText editor and how to switch between the two. Though most new editors do not show a preference for WikiText editor, it’s important to show folks how the WikiText editor works, because they will have to interact with it eventually in talk pages or when fixing complex formatting on pages.