Welcome!

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Hi, Oelwiki , and Welcome to Wikipedia!  

Welcome to Wikipedia!   I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. Before getting too in-depth, you may want to read about the simplified ruleset. Of the many ways to get help on Wikipedia, I personally recommend our wiki-boot camp, where you can chat online with fellow Wikipedians willing to help, or see some of the resources on WP:Wc!

Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have, on [[User talk:{{{2}}}|my talk page]] - I'm happy to help.


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

Finding your way around:

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Need help?

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How you can help:

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Additional tips...

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Good luck, and have fun. -- Dancter 19:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Germany Invitation

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Hello, Oelwiki! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:51, 11 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Adoption

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I'll adopt you, if you want. See my user page for more about me. Reply on my talk page.-- Barkjo 00:17, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Adoption tips

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Tips!

  • You graduate from the Adopt-a-User program when you feel confident to edit on your own.
  • Vandalism is when a user changes something good on a page to something bad or disrubtive.
  • Rollbacks are users who use a special tool to revert vandalism quicker.
  • Sysops are users who can block users, delete, protect, and un-protect pages, and make other users rollbacks. They can also rollback.
  • Bureacrats are users who can do the same things as sysops, but, in addition, they can make other users bots, sysops, and other bureacrats.

-- Barkjo 00:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

More adoption tips

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  • There are many "vandalism" reverting programs, such as Twinkle and Lupin's anti-vandal tool. Though these help a lot, you should try manual vandalism-reverting first.
  • If your talk page gets too busy, archive it. To see an example of an archive, see big-name editors here, like Jimbo Wales's talk page. It has a couple archived talk pages.
  • WikiProjects are groups of users specializing in one subject. Here's an example one: Wikipedia:WikiProject Rock music.
  • Barnstars are awards on Wikipedia. Look at various user's userpages to see some.
  • Have fun editing Wikipedia! Remember, be bold!

-- Barkjo 03:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Tips

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  • Mainspace pages are the pages with the information, without a prefix, like Panda.
  • The Userspace are the userpages. They have the User: prefix
  • Talk pages are discussion pages. They either talk about a mainspace page or they have messages for a user. They have the Talk: or User talk: prefix.
  • Images are the pictures and photos on Wikipedia. They have the Image: prefix. They also have discussion pages with the prefix Image talk:.
  • Keep on working!-- Barkjo 14:46, 24 May 2008 (UTC)Reply