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Thanks for your note! Nice to hear from you! These days Wikipedia is a pretty mature project so it can be more intimidating for new contributors to feel comfortable just jumping in. I try to help out by leaving "welcome messages" for new users and trying to avoid the tendency some older editors have to "revert first and ask questions later". One of the best things is that working on articles is very collaborative, so you can always add images and text and then see if anyone fixes or adjusts it and hopefully learn from there (provided that you were followed by an experienced editor and not a vandal. WP:BOLD is a good guideline on just jumping in, which can be summed up as "just do it and if anyone objects they will let you know". In the case of your screenshots, they are great, we are always trying to add the newest ones on there as they are released, I just removed the old ones and moved yours up to the place-of-honour in the info box at the top right. So keep on editing away, watch what happens to the pages after your edits and others will hopefully give you the opportunity to learn and contribute more. I will mention that free software can be a bit of a zoo on Wikipedia. I do most of my work on aircraft articles and a bit on free software and I find free software is subject to a lot more strongly held opinions, prejudice and "difficult editors", so if you seem to run into problems in free software you might try editing in a different subject area for a bit. By all means if you have questions or run into rough spots do drop me a note either here or on my talk page. I am on almost everyday so I will probably get back to you quickly. - Ahunt ( talk) 12:03, 25 May 2010 (UTC) PS I am using Lucid too, our house has been using Ubuntu since Feisty!
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Those are all good questions - so ask away.
You can use existing userboxes or make up your own. They don't really contribute a lot to the encyclopedia, but they allow people to customize their own user pages, so perhaps it makes people feel more at home here. They may be worthwhile if people then stay and help contribute to articles!
There are lots of ways to show userboxes on your user page, some are neater than others. Here is how I do it. I could add to a user page:
{{Userboxtop}} {{User OS:Ubuntu}} {{User:CFeyecare/templates/linux|[[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]]|thirty-three}} {{Template:User browser:Chromium}} {{User:UBX/GIMP}} {{User:Ahunt/Audacity}} {{Userboxbottom}}
and that will add those boxes over on the right as you see here on this page:
Substituting other boxes from say Wikipedia:Userboxes/Software for software boxes allows you to customize your list. Some fun onmes are at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/humour, but the master list is at Template:WP:UBS.
There are instructions on how to make your own at Wikipedia:Userboxes. If you do make any and would like to give other editors the chance to use them then you can list them on the appropriete page linked from Template:WP:UBS. Let me know if you have more questions. - Ahunt ( talk) 22:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Ahunt what do you think of the sandbox ? ThyArmageddon ( talk) 19:48, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I need some help on translation. Please translate the following word to Arabic.
Thank you. Amit6 ( talk) 15:48, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
There you go :) and please let me know where you use these... ThyArmageddon ( talk) 19:53, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
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Welcome all to my talk page, please feel free to fill it up...
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
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Ahunt (
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00:35, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your note! Nice to hear from you! These days Wikipedia is a pretty mature project so it can be more intimidating for new contributors to feel comfortable just jumping in. I try to help out by leaving "welcome messages" for new users and trying to avoid the tendency some older editors have to "revert first and ask questions later". One of the best things is that working on articles is very collaborative, so you can always add images and text and then see if anyone fixes or adjusts it and hopefully learn from there (provided that you were followed by an experienced editor and not a vandal. WP:BOLD is a good guideline on just jumping in, which can be summed up as "just do it and if anyone objects they will let you know". In the case of your screenshots, they are great, we are always trying to add the newest ones on there as they are released, I just removed the old ones and moved yours up to the place-of-honour in the info box at the top right. So keep on editing away, watch what happens to the pages after your edits and others will hopefully give you the opportunity to learn and contribute more. I will mention that free software can be a bit of a zoo on Wikipedia. I do most of my work on aircraft articles and a bit on free software and I find free software is subject to a lot more strongly held opinions, prejudice and "difficult editors", so if you seem to run into problems in free software you might try editing in a different subject area for a bit. By all means if you have questions or run into rough spots do drop me a note either here or on my talk page. I am on almost everyday so I will probably get back to you quickly. - Ahunt ( talk) 12:03, 25 May 2010 (UTC) PS I am using Lucid too, our house has been using Ubuntu since Feisty!
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Those are all good questions - so ask away.
You can use existing userboxes or make up your own. They don't really contribute a lot to the encyclopedia, but they allow people to customize their own user pages, so perhaps it makes people feel more at home here. They may be worthwhile if people then stay and help contribute to articles!
There are lots of ways to show userboxes on your user page, some are neater than others. Here is how I do it. I could add to a user page:
{{Userboxtop}} {{User OS:Ubuntu}} {{User:CFeyecare/templates/linux|[[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]]|thirty-three}} {{Template:User browser:Chromium}} {{User:UBX/GIMP}} {{User:Ahunt/Audacity}} {{Userboxbottom}}
and that will add those boxes over on the right as you see here on this page:
Substituting other boxes from say Wikipedia:Userboxes/Software for software boxes allows you to customize your list. Some fun onmes are at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/humour, but the master list is at Template:WP:UBS.
There are instructions on how to make your own at Wikipedia:Userboxes. If you do make any and would like to give other editors the chance to use them then you can list them on the appropriete page linked from Template:WP:UBS. Let me know if you have more questions. - Ahunt ( talk) 22:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Ahunt what do you think of the sandbox ? ThyArmageddon ( talk) 19:48, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I need some help on translation. Please translate the following word to Arabic.
Thank you. Amit6 ( talk) 15:48, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
There you go :) and please let me know where you use these... ThyArmageddon ( talk) 19:53, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
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