Hello, TUMoNSaLC! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Smallman12q (talk) 19:52, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, TUMoNSaLC! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Smallman12q (talk) 19:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
First off, I would like to personally welcome you to Wikipedia. Its good to see there are still people out there discovering this wonderful source.
Now to answer your questions. I have placed two templates at the top of your talk page which should provide you with some helpful links. Writing articles is fairly simple in wikipedia. You simply hit the "edit" tab at the top of your screen. A few pages, such as the main page, you cannot edit because only site administrators can, but for the remaining 2 million pages, you can edit them. Its quite simple...you simply copy paste out of Microsoft word and paste the content here. You will need to modify the formatting slightly, but that shouldn't be a problem. I strongly suggest you look at Wikipedia:Tutorial to learn more. Do be aware that articles should have reliable sources/references, and that they should have some notability(an article about your third-grade teacher's sock is not notable).
You mention that English isn't your first language...but not to worry, there is a Portuguese encyclopedia at http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal . If you feel your english is too weak you can contribute there...or if you feel your English is decent, you can help translate articles.
One last thing, when you leave a message, you can sign it by adding ~~~~ to the end of your message. Enjoy your stay at wikipedia and feel free to ask me if you still need help.Smallman12q (talk) 20:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
