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Content collection, draft, stakeholder review Contact the sources/SME who will help you define the key talking points Create the structure aligned to similar deliverables already created Create your first draft Validate the talking points and the draft with the key stakeholder for text content Clean up the content with the new data from volunteers and the stakeholder review Send the wikipage to the copyeditor for the first review  Note: Although, I prefer the industry standard of one copyediting cycle per product,  for the Bookshelf project I added two copyediting reviews because I had concerns around quality of the final product. Here are the reasons for that concern: 1.In the Wikipedia/Wikimedia world, everyone is encouraged to access the page and edit content to help improve the article. 2. The project team, including the writers and copyeditor are geographically distributed or working in a remote setting. 3. English is a second language for a couple of writers a...

Instructional design principles remain the same irrespective of the content. its analyze content not as a subject, but at a higher level--what is the key problem the training intervention is trying to address? Based on the content provided, what objectives contribute towards the solving the problem? How do these objectives tie with the interactions so that the course is within the the scope? What would be the evaluation criteria? Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) might consider some concepts as a given while providing content, without considering the audience profile. The language used for the online media is direct and straightforward. ID-SME collaboration helps to break complex concepts into simpler, easily understandable content. Audiences tend to think within their departmental/team silos. Even within the team, people have different levels of subject knowledge. IDs use their skill with content to preempt questions for all levels of learners.