LEVEL 2
- Action 1 - Load userpage
- Dialogue 1
Glad you're still with us! This mission we'll learn about communicating with other editors. In addition to a userpage, every editor has their own talk page. Other editors can leave you notes and comments. Hey, look at that...
- Action 2 - You have new messages
- Click here to access your talk page, which is also known as your "discussion page."
- Action 3 - Welcome message on talk page
- Message 1
- Welcome to Wikipedia! This is a collaborative project, where editors build articles based on good sources, and help each other to make the articles be complete and full of great information. Here are a few links that will be helpful to you during your time here.
- Help Desk
- Wikipedia:About
- Wikipedia:Introduction
- Wikipedia:Tutorial
- Wikipedia:Community tutorial
- Wikipedia:Simple ruleset
- --WillKomen
- Message 2
- Yeah, great to have you on board!
- --BenVenido
- Dialogue 2
That was nice! Let's write back. Responding to talk messages on Wikipedia involves two important pieces: indenting and signatures. Indenting is how you show your comment as a reply to another editor. It moves the text over to the right and makes it clear who you are talking to. To indent, you just add : , one more than the person you are replying to.
- Action 4 - Type colon under talk message
- Dialogue 3
Great, just like that. Now let's write a reply.
- Interface 1
- For now we'll simplify the editing just a bit and let you pick from 3 options.
- Thanks so much for your friendly welcomes. I can't wait to start editing!
- That was really nice of you two. I sure hope everyone is this friendly!
- Great to hear from someone else. I'm new here but hope to learn a lot really quickly!
- Choose a message to respond.
- Dialogue 3a
Signatures are how to let other editors know who wrote what comment. When you type ~~~~ after your comment it will add a link to your userpage, your talkpage, and the time of your message. For this level, I'll add the signature automatically, and next time you can take over.
- Action 5 - Insert message
- Inserts message below the welcome, indented and signed.
- Dialogue 4
Let's see how that looks.
- Action 6 - Highlight Show Preview
- Click here to see a preview of your reply.
- Action 7 - Load Preview
- Dialogue 5
Just how you wanted it. All you have to do now is click Save and you're done
- Action 8 - Highlight Save
- Click here to save your changes.
Action 9 - Load Saved page
- Dialogue 6
An easy way to keep track of the changes you've made is with your watchlist.
- Action 10 - Highlight My Watchlist
Click here to access your watchlist.
- Dialogue 7
A watchlist is your personal feed of changes to articles you follow. Nothing in there yet. You can add an article to the watchlist anytime by clicking the star at the top of the page.
- Action 11 - Highlight My Talk
Click here to go to your Talk page
- Action 12 - Load talk page
- Action 13 - Highlight Watchlist star
- This is the button you press to add a page to your personal watchlist. Let's go add the page to your watchlist.
- Dialogue 8
What else... how about keeping track of all of the contributions you're going to make?
- Action 14 - Highlight My Contributions
- Click here to access your contributions
- Action 15 - Load My Contributions
- Dialogue 9
4 edits so far! But none of them are on real Wikipedia articles. Hmm... what can I do about that?
- Action 16 - Highlight Reload page button in browser
Click here to reload the page and see if anything new has happened
- Action 17 - New message banner
Click here to access your new messages!
- Action 18 - Load talk page
- Message 3
Hey, I see that you're from Planet Earth. I have been working on the Wikipedia article on Planet Earth. Would you like to give me a hand on it? --GaiaGirl 1988
- Interface 2
What would you like to say?
- "Sounds great. I've been interested in Planet Earth for as long as I can remember. How do I get to the page?"
- Swell, do you have a link?
- "Awesome, it's my favorite planet! How do I get to it?
- Action 19 - Type reply after colon
- Dialogue 10
This time, you sign it, by adding ~~~~ after your name.
- Dialogue 11
You know how this works already! Just leave an edit summary saying, "I'd love to help". Then Preview and Save.
- Action 20 - Edit summary, preview, and save
- Action 21 - Reload talk page
Reload the page to see if there's a response
- Action 22 - Load Talk page
- Dialogue 12
Oh, that was fast!
- Message 4
Great I'm excited. To get to the page just click this link: [[Earth]]. It will take you to the article. There's plenty to work on and I could really use a hand. Glad to have your help. See you there! --GaiaGirl1988
- Dialogue 13
Nice job, you've got something to work on already. Wikipedia is full of things to help out with and a great place to start is with a topic you're interested in. Next mission we'll take a look at that Earth article and see how we can lend a hand.
- Action 23 - Your progress has been saved. Break or continue?