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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Welcome to the User page design guide (start here) About you ... Wikipedia: User page design guide.
To link to it, type [[User:Example User/Subpage]] To transclude it (like a template) type {{User:Example User/Subpage}} The reason you would want to transclude it is if you want to put a header on every page, all you would need to put is {{User:Example User/Header}}, and you wouldn't need to put the code on each time. Also see Wikipedia:Subpages
If you are new to Wikipedia, you might consider using the standard article format for your userpage initially. That should suffice while you're learning the ropes. If you don't have a user page yet and don't know how to create a page, then click on your user name at the top of the screen and follow the instructions (if the page already exists, your username will be blue instead of red).
That makes your user page one of the most easily accessible pages to you on Wikipedia, making it a powerful tool. One of the things you can use your user page for is navigation. It is the perfect place for bookmarks and navbars/navboxes, to get you where you need to go on Wikipedia and related destinations fast.
Note: This method is a hack which does not work with all Wikipedia skins. For example, users of the Classic skin will have the links at the top of the page covered up by the title. Alternate title headers are headers that cover up the default header at the top of a page. The default title header has the name of the page in big bold letters.
Example; Main text This is what will go in the first large box in your page Hello, welcome to my userpage, I do this and that, blah blah blah. You may use ==sections== here. Main text 2 This is what will go in the top right box in your page A picture, or say, contact details (not too private) Userbox1-6 Your userboxes. NO MORE THAN 6
This is a dummy article to help you get started with creating pages in the wiki; please copy the code to a different page and edit it there. The first paragraph is usually a short dictionary-style definition of the subject matter.
After saving the page, press Ctrl+R. Doing so will add the following programs or changes to your account: Watchlist sorter - Sorts your watchlist by namespace, and also adds spaces for readability. Lupin's Anti-vandal tool - A watchdog tool which adds the following 4 items to your toolbox menu in the sidebar on the left side of your screen: