Oelwiki

Welcome!

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.

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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

Need help?

• Introduction - quick steps to help you get started.
• Questions - a guide on where to ask questions.

• Wikipedia's 5 pillars - our most important rules.
• Cheatsheet - quick reference on Wikipedia's mark-up codes.

How you can help:

• Contributing - 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). Or use the button, on the tool bar.

• If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills the Sandbox is for you.
• If you'd like to meet other new users, be sure to visit our new user log.

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

WikiProject Germany Invitation

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. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | watch Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | watch

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

Adoption

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

Adoption tips

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.

-- Barkjon  00:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

More adoption tips

• 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!

-- Barkjon  03:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Tips

• 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!-- Barkjon  14:46, 24 May 2008 (UTC)