![]() | CyrillicNews is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
Welcome!
Hello, CyrillicNews, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
discussion pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}}
before the question. Again, welcome! --
Ronz (
talk)
19:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Please do not add advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.-- Hu12 ( talk) 00:31, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
In situations like this, I find that this essay helps: User:WLU/Generic_sandbox -- Ronz ( talk) 19:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
— Mizu onna sango15 Hello! 08:29, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
First, thanks for adopting me. Don't hesitate to tell me if my questions get to be too much (I'm notorious for asking lots of detailed questions and annoying people by doing so and I'd rather not annoy you). I promise I'll never take offense; just give me some idea of how much is too much and I'll try not to exceed that threshold.
Second, I'm brand spanking new (in the sense of a newborn; not in the original sense) to WP. I have a great deal of experience with learning in general (30 years or so), but almost none at all in the WP community. And although I've read what I suspect are some important things, I'm sure there's a vast amount that I'm still missing and I'm hoping you might be able to suggest a set of priorities for what to read first because at this point, I'm sure the list of things I should read would be overwhelming if I even knew what it was. Thanks to Ronz, I have read User:WLU/Generic_sandbox and many of the pages linked to in that essay.
But my main confusion point now is regarding standard communications procedures between editors. I read this but I'm still not sure I understand. I write to you (what I guess amounts to an email message of sorts) on my talk page, and you write to me on your talk page? (I am watching your talk page thanks to something you wrote there that I guess was meant for adoptees---did you do that with {{Usertalkback|you=watched}}?). Is that right? But talk pages are totally public, right? And what about wikimail(?) (is that right?)? Is that the generally preferred way of engaging in private communication in this community? Am I correct in thinking that these two modes of communication are analogous to a public forum post and a private message (PM), respectively, in a forum like phpBB? Or a message to the mailing list and a message to an individual on that list, respectively, in a LISTSERV? I think I sent you a message in wikimail before posting on your talk page. Did you get that?
And penultimately, I hope you can see from this message that I've been reading a great deal just on wiki formatting. I'm trying to demonstrate that I know I should be reading existing material before asking someone like you. But there's just so much existing material! Just trying to avoid any faux pas while not being too timid. :)
And lastly, since you adopted me, and since I don't know what the words in your username mean, I wonder if you'd confirm for me: am I right in thinking that Mizu onna sango translates to Water woman coral? Just a curiosity point. There's no particular meaning to my username. I'm trying to become multilingual and learning the Cyrillic alphabet was on my mind at the moment I created a WP account. The username Cyrillic was taken, so I just added News in case that was available. CyrillicNews ( talk) 18:57, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
![]() | CyrillicNews is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
Welcome!
Hello, CyrillicNews, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
discussion pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}}
before the question. Again, welcome! --
Ronz (
talk)
19:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Please do not add advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.-- Hu12 ( talk) 00:31, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
In situations like this, I find that this essay helps: User:WLU/Generic_sandbox -- Ronz ( talk) 19:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
— Mizu onna sango15 Hello! 08:29, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
First, thanks for adopting me. Don't hesitate to tell me if my questions get to be too much (I'm notorious for asking lots of detailed questions and annoying people by doing so and I'd rather not annoy you). I promise I'll never take offense; just give me some idea of how much is too much and I'll try not to exceed that threshold.
Second, I'm brand spanking new (in the sense of a newborn; not in the original sense) to WP. I have a great deal of experience with learning in general (30 years or so), but almost none at all in the WP community. And although I've read what I suspect are some important things, I'm sure there's a vast amount that I'm still missing and I'm hoping you might be able to suggest a set of priorities for what to read first because at this point, I'm sure the list of things I should read would be overwhelming if I even knew what it was. Thanks to Ronz, I have read User:WLU/Generic_sandbox and many of the pages linked to in that essay.
But my main confusion point now is regarding standard communications procedures between editors. I read this but I'm still not sure I understand. I write to you (what I guess amounts to an email message of sorts) on my talk page, and you write to me on your talk page? (I am watching your talk page thanks to something you wrote there that I guess was meant for adoptees---did you do that with {{Usertalkback|you=watched}}?). Is that right? But talk pages are totally public, right? And what about wikimail(?) (is that right?)? Is that the generally preferred way of engaging in private communication in this community? Am I correct in thinking that these two modes of communication are analogous to a public forum post and a private message (PM), respectively, in a forum like phpBB? Or a message to the mailing list and a message to an individual on that list, respectively, in a LISTSERV? I think I sent you a message in wikimail before posting on your talk page. Did you get that?
And penultimately, I hope you can see from this message that I've been reading a great deal just on wiki formatting. I'm trying to demonstrate that I know I should be reading existing material before asking someone like you. But there's just so much existing material! Just trying to avoid any faux pas while not being too timid. :)
And lastly, since you adopted me, and since I don't know what the words in your username mean, I wonder if you'd confirm for me: am I right in thinking that Mizu onna sango translates to Water woman coral? Just a curiosity point. There's no particular meaning to my username. I'm trying to become multilingual and learning the Cyrillic alphabet was on my mind at the moment I created a WP account. The username Cyrillic was taken, so I just added News in case that was available. CyrillicNews ( talk) 18:57, 10 January 2009 (UTC)