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Use to welcome new editors and provide links to useful information spread out across Wikipedia. To add the default version to a user's talk page, write {{subst:Welcome to Wikipedia}}. To see how it works, transclude it in various forms to your own talk page or sandbox. Can be given to IP or registered users.
{{subst:W-graphical}} → graphical menu format, similar to Template:WelcomeMenu, to ease transition from the graphic-heavy web; with autosign. {{subst:W-graphic}} → similar, with more powerful colours and changes in text; with autosign.
The standard template to welcome new editors. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status heading heading Suppresses the automatic heading Unknown optional Heading text headtext Changes the contents of the heading Default Welcome! String optional border border Adds a border around the message in a specified color or hex triplet Example DarkViolet, #9400D3 String ...
How to start a page. Help on creating your first article. Things to avoid. How to avoid common errors and mistakes. Style Guide. How to write in an acceptable style. Main policies of Wikipedia. Wikipedia's main policies and guidelines. Frequently asked questions. Some common questions and their answers. Help Desk. Here you can ask other editors ...
This page is a quick guide to working on Wikipedia for people here as part of school and university projects. Hopefully, if you're here with an organized project, you'll know what you're intended to do - whether that be creating a new article on a personal topic, or editing a specific one.
This version of Wikipedia for Schools was curated by SolarSPELL, an educational initiative at Arizona State University. Wikipedia for Schools articles are organized under following topics. On each topic page, you can find quick access to the most relevant sections in that topic; however, many extra articles can be found by using the search feature.
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).
For example, we have a lot of articles about bands. The Beatles were a very famous and important band because their songs left their mark on society forever, but the band that practices in your neighbor's garage is not likely to be ready for a Wikipedia article for a long time, even if they played at the school prom.