Nataliemeoww
Joined 25 January 2023
Latest comment: 1 month ago by Nataliemeoww in topic Welcome!
Welcome! edit
Hello, Nataliemeoww, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum, see the Wikipedia Teahouse.
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 12:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi. Actually I've been using Wikimedia projects for a long time, since I was a kid, and I thank all of you for all of your effort. Here I usually make minor copy-edits (as you call them?), since I don't really see myself sufficient to write a sensible source of information. I suppose it counts either way!.. Even then, thank you for your personal message. Unless this is automated. —Nataliemeoww (talk) 12:09, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- I did see that you've done a number of constructive edits going back some time, and felt that you were overdue for a proper welcome to the Wikipedia community. The message was partly automated, but not fully. I use a tool called Twinkle that is useful for, among many other things, welcoming users. It provides a menu with a few welcoming templates to choose from, and the cookie welcome is one of them. I like it because it speaks to me personally; a warm plate of cookies lends itself to a friendly and wholesome environment, plus the template itself provides a number of helpful links. So while the template was pre-written and I used a semi-automated tool to deliver it, the sentiment behind the message is genuine. BTW, it's great to hear about how long Wikimedia projects have been in your life – I started reading Wikipedia as a young child, and created my account before I even became a teenager! Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 15:05, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- lol, I get you—I don't expect you to go and leave a message like this on every user's discussion page without some automation at the least.
- Thanks a lot for your consideration. I never had an interaction with other editors other than short, unidirectional ones, the edit messages. I suppose you noticed me in the Wikimedia Discord, in which I'd like to interchange in.
- Also, how do you change your signature that way?
- —Nataliemeoww (talk) 16:12, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yes I did notice you in the Wikimedia Discord :) I just joined the server recently myself – it's great to be able to collaborate with/seek help from/talk to fellow editors in a less formal setting. You can change your signature by going to your preferences. The page opens up on a tab called "User profile". If you scroll down, you'll see a text box where you can change your signature. Below the text box is a checkbox that has a caption beginning with "Treat the above as wiki markup" (emphasis original). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming you want to use different colors in your signature. In order to do that, use the following HTML tag:
<span style="color:bunny">ynnub</span>; replace "bunny" with the color you would like to use, and "ynnub" with the text you would like to colorize. In order to link the colored text to your userpage, pipe a link to it and insert your username after the pipe itself. For example, Example is rendered in wiki markup as[[User:Example|<span style="color:teal">Example</span>]]. Hope this helps, Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 21:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)- oh, I already know HTML and CSS, but thanks for pointing in the right direction —Nataliemeoww (talk) 10:39, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yes I did notice you in the Wikimedia Discord :) I just joined the server recently myself – it's great to be able to collaborate with/seek help from/talk to fellow editors in a less formal setting. You can change your signature by going to your preferences. The page opens up on a tab called "User profile". If you scroll down, you'll see a text box where you can change your signature. Below the text box is a checkbox that has a caption beginning with "Treat the above as wiki markup" (emphasis original). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming you want to use different colors in your signature. In order to do that, use the following HTML tag:
- I did see that you've done a number of constructive edits going back some time, and felt that you were overdue for a proper welcome to the Wikipedia community. The message was partly automated, but not fully. I use a tool called Twinkle that is useful for, among many other things, welcoming users. It provides a menu with a few welcoming templates to choose from, and the cookie welcome is one of them. I like it because it speaks to me personally; a warm plate of cookies lends itself to a friendly and wholesome environment, plus the template itself provides a number of helpful links. So while the template was pre-written and I used a semi-automated tool to deliver it, the sentiment behind the message is genuine. BTW, it's great to hear about how long Wikimedia projects have been in your life – I started reading Wikipedia as a young child, and created my account before I even became a teenager! Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 15:05, 2 April 2024 (UTC)