User talk:Oelwiki

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. Before getting too in-depth, you may want to read about the simplified ruleset. Of the many ways to get help on Wikipedia, I personally recommend our wiki-boot camp, where you can chat online with fellow Wikipedians willing to help, or see some of the resources on WP:Wc!

Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have, on [[User talk:{{{2}}}|my talk page]] - I'm happy to help.

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Good luck, and have fun. -- Dancter 19:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Germany Invitation[edit]

Hello, Oelwiki! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:51, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption[edit]

I'll adopt you, if you want. See my user page for more about me. Reply on my talk page.-- Barkjon 00:17, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption tips[edit]

Tips!

You graduate from the Adopt-a-User program when you feel confident to edit on your own.
Vandalism is when a user changes something good on a page to something bad or disrubtive.
Rollbacks are users who use a special tool to revert vandalism quicker.
Sysops are users who can block users, delete, protect, and un-protect pages, and make other users rollbacks. They can also rollback.
Bureacrats are users who can do the same things as sysops, but, in addition, they can make other users bots, sysops, and other bureacrats.

-- Barkjon 00:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More adoption tips[edit]

There are many "vandalism" reverting programs, such as Twinkle and Lupin's anti-vandal tool. Though these help a lot, you should try manual vandalism-reverting first.
If your talk page gets too busy, archive it. To see an example of an archive, see big-name editors here, like Jimbo Wales's talk page. It has a couple archived talk pages.
WikiProjects are groups of users specializing in one subject. Here's an example one: Wikipedia:WikiProject Rock music.
Barnstars are awards on Wikipedia. Look at various user's userpages to see some.
Have fun editing Wikipedia! Remember, be bold!

-- Barkjon 03:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tips[edit]

Mainspace pages are the pages with the information, without a prefix, like Panda.
The Userspace are the userpages. They have the User: prefix
Talk pages are discussion pages. They either talk about a mainspace page or they have messages for a user. They have the Talk: or User talk: prefix.
Images are the pictures and photos on Wikipedia. They have the Image: prefix. They also have discussion pages with the prefix Image talk:.
Keep on working!-- Barkjon 14:46, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]