NorainaJamalRashid

Hi this is my talk page. Feel free to drop by and leave me a message sometime. NorainaJamalRashid (talk) 15:06, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Welcome

Hello NorainaJamalRashid, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopaedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or at the New contributors' help page.

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Here are some more resources to help you as you explore and contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia...

Finding your way around:

• Table of contents / Department directory

• The Wikipedia Adventure (a tutorial orienting you with Wikipedia)

Need help?

• Questions – a guide on where to ask questions
• Cheatsheet – quick reference on Wikipedia's mark-up codes (for use with the source editor)
• Wikipedia's 5 pillars – an overview of Wikipedia's key guiding principle

• Article wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles
• The simplified ruleset – a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules
• Guide to Wikipedia – a thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia

How you can help:

• Contributing to Wikipedia – a guide on how you can help

• Community portal – Wikipedia's hub of activity

Additional tips...

• Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The or button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.
• If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.

NorainaJamalRashid, good luck, and have fun. – Stinglehammer (talk) 19:47, 1st July 2016 (UTC)

University Main Library session 01.07.2016

Hello again, NorainaJamalRashid!
Thank you so much for taking part in the training session today. I hope that you enjoyed it and that we'll see you on Wiki again soon.

Now that you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

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  How universities are teaching with Wikipedia
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  Editing Wikipedia brochure
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  Instructor Basics, How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool
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  Illustrating Wikipedia brochure

If you're not feeling bold enough to write an (other) article straight away, why not try a small edit first, or adding a link? Don't worry about being perfect, Wiki is a constantly evolving entity. Fortunately there's a whole team of editors just like you who can help.

Welcome! Now have some cake...

You can't break Wikipedia, but in case you're still nervous here are some pages that you might find helpful, especially the first one which covers the main things to remember about using Visual Editor.

• Visual Editor user guide
• Is your topic notable enough for an article?
• Be Bold!
• Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
• Learn from others
• How to write a great article
• A simplified manual of style

The University of Edinburgh are also looking into running lots more edit-a-thons over the course of the residency where you could get extra practice in a friendly communal environment (with fellow editors, tea, coffee & biscuits) – details are still to be confirmed but will be updated on my project page here: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Remember, if you are writing on a talk page, please sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.

By the way, NorainaJamalRashid, are you on the Edinburgh Digital Ambassador programme? If so, that's 1.5 hours completed towards your 50 hours already. If you would be interested to discuss being involved in some of the Wikimedia projects at the University of Edinburgh (be it in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikicommons, Wikisource or a combination of these projects) then contact me at ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk and we can discuss projects you may like to contribute to or even suggest your own!

If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. See you soon! Stinglehammer (talk) 18:50, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Something I thought might interest you... To keep up to date about Wikimedia events happening throughout Scotland, to learn more about ScotWiki projects, or to publicise your own ScotWiki event or project, join the ScotWiki Mailing List!