Women-in-red-edinburgh

Hi I am Women-in-red-edinburgh (talk) 14:10, 8 March 2016 (UTC)Undine

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Welcome

Hello, Women-in-red-edinburgh, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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

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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
• Wikipedia's 5 pillars – an overview of Wikipedia's foundations

• 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.

International Women's Day editathon

Hello again, Women-in-red-edinburgh!
Thank you so much for taking part in the History of Medicine editathon. Just so you know, out of the 45 artists exhibited in the Modern Scottish Women exhibition, thanks to your efforts, only two are left without Wiki pages. For the event page, click [IWD2016 editathon].
I hope that you enjoyed the day, and that we'll see you on Wiki again soon.

Now that you've learned - or refreshed - 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.

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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 next up-and-coming Wikipedia event is a shorter Basic Wikipedia Editing Training session for Edinburgh University staff & students Details here: http://edin.ac/1U8bsWJ
So if you wanted extra practice or knew someone that might be interested then by all means. Details for future events are still to be confirmed but will be updated on my project page here: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh| University of Edinburgh WikiProject or on my colleague Sara Thomas's page [Museum & Galleries Scotland Wikiproject] or we can also notify you through the Scots Wiki mailing list (below) if you would like to sign up to that. You can also contribute to Wikipedia by checking out the opportunities at the Community Portal (link above) or the Women in Red project will be running for the rest of March. if you would like to contribute to the Women in Red project then check out the page here: [Women in Red Wikiproject]
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.

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. Cheers! Stinglehammer (talk) 15:31, 9 March 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!