User:Verbistheword/Interacting with Wikimedians

Further leads to pursue:

Get welcomed

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A number of initiatives are aimed at new Wikipedia editors.

Introduce yourself

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Get help

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The Teahouse invites new Wikipedia editors to ask questions. Experienced editors monitor the quesitons and often are very quick to answer.

Conversations

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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual has a section on communicating with fellow editors.

Talk pages

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Each Wikimedia account and article can have a talk page, where asynchronous typed messages can be exchanged. There are a variety of symbols you can use to indicate state of discussions.

Events

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Wikimedians sometimes get together in person! These events might be an edit-a-thon, a meetup, or a Wikidojo, or they could be conferences, such as the yearly Wikimania.

Digital thanks

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There are a number of different kinds of digital awards and even a WikiProject that aims to organize them.

"Thanks" notification

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At the end of each change comment on an article's revision history has a "Thanks" link. Wikimedians can click on this link to send a simple notification to another Wikimedian.

Barnstars

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Wikimedians can award barnstars to one other for anything they think is worth celebrating. There are many kinds of barnstars.

Read Wikimedian news

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You can read about Wikimedia news on the Wikimedia blog or on Wikipedia Signpost, a "community-written and edited newspaper that covers stories, events, and reports related to the English Wikipedia."

Collaborate with other organizers

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A group of local Wikimedians across the U.S. interact via a mailing list.