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I have sign up in wikipedia but dont knw for which purpose should i use my account? can I send e-mail from my account to my friend? plz guide me..

:Well this is the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It has little to do with sending email and more to do with writing and helping out with tasks that benefit the encyclopedia. If you'd like to help out and get involved, a good launching point is the [[Wikipedia:Community Portal]]. Regarding email, you can send email to other Wikipedians, but not to outside email addresses. We're not a free email host.--[[User:Fuhghettaboutit|Fuhghettaboutit]] 03:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

::The first thing to do with your account is to [[WP:SIG|sign your posts on talk pages]], by typing four tildes, like this: <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code>. (This page is not technically in a "Talk" [[Help:Namespace|namespace]], but by convention we treat it as if it is. On Wikipedia, we always follow the rules, except when we don't.) You might also [[Help:User page|make your user page]]. To learn what other Wikipedians do with their accounts, as well as to learn what a Wikipedian is, start reading [[User:John Broughton/Editor's Index to Wikipedia]] and the (many) pages it links to. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia about pretty much everything, so this is a ''very'' complex project. (It's quite possible that no single human has a solid grasp on everything going on here, any more than the [[President of the United States]] knows what every government employee or agency is doing.) You might also bookmark this Help desk page, and each day come back and read the day's questions and answers, following the links in the answers to read more details. That will give you a good picture on what is going on here, or at least a subset of such activities that people are asking for help about. If you want to [[Wikipedia:Emailing users|send e-mail]] to your friend from Wikipedia, your friend will also have to sign up for a Wikipedia account. Ultimately your goal should be to [[Help:Edit|edit]] some articles, making them better than they were before you arrived. If you have a particular interest, you might see if a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] exists for it, and join. I also recommend the [[Wikipedia:Instructional material#MediaWiki training videos|training videos]] for an easy introduction to what [[wiki]]s are about. --[[User:Teratornis|Teratornis]] 14:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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