[edit] WikiWelcome!

Hello and welcome to the community of Wikipedians!
Your experience is valuable and your efforts can be appreciated by a great many.
Learn and share and expect your work to be edited by others.
(Your contributions may be corrected or enhanced, praised or scorned, even completely rearranged or completely ignored.)

SAY HELLO: with a note at Wikipedia:New user log

• Be somebody! Get an entry in the Directory and note your areas of interest

READ: Not sure how to begin?
Here is some reading to get you up to speed:

• To get you started: Tutorial, Help, and FAQ pages.
• To fall asleep with: What Wikipedia IS and is NOT, Policies & Procedures, What's in a name?, How to write with style, Wikiquette, learn to Be bold! and Stay cool!

WRITE: Don't want to slow your momentum?
Just keep writing and learn-as-you-go. Some Quick-Tips:

• Each article has a historical record, so for every edit, you should:
  1. Provide a descriptive Summary,
  2. Mark mINOR edits,
  3. and Always Preview changes before saving.
• When you're creating a new page for a missing entry that is worthy of adding but you need help to complete the article, mark it as a STUB to enlist others to help finish what you've started.
• You can always practice in the Sandbox

DISCUSS: Just need to talk about it?

• Ask a question at the Village Pump or at the Reference Desk
• Comment, discuss, fuss & fume on the talk page of any article or user page.
• Don't forget to leave your Signature on talk pages.
• Drop by and talk...

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Mor-Taxan, General Placido Vega y Daza, Timothy Morss, Backlog...
• Cleanup: Special:Whatlinkshere/Category:Cleanup from July 2005, Albany Movement, Special:Search/Cleanup from July 2005, Backlog...
• Stubs: Roy A. Tucker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province), Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, Spectral class, Sportscaster, Krško, More...
• Verify: Hipster (1990s subculture), Banu (Arabic), IMBEWU, Al Sharpton, Excitatism, Suzlon Energy, Backlog...
• Update: List of United States House committees, Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index, Armenian Power, SIDPERS, AmBX, More...
• Neutrality: Iraqi Security Forces, Kristin Nelson, Adam Beattie, Bobby Bland, Martha Chávez, Jewish Bolshevism, VKB, Backlog...
• Copyedit: Kandahar, Pearse Jordan, History of Baku, Aziz Abdul Naji, Chocolate City Records, Teachings of Falun Gong, More...
• Merge: Steady state theory, Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics of Université Laval, Univision.com, Military of Iraq, Pi, Backlog...
• Style: Sarkar (film), Sting and Lex Luger, Newsbreak Magazine, Production logo, Peer exchange, More...
• Expand: Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple, The Curse of Yig (short story), Erotica, Harivamsa, More...
• Requests: Lam ploen, Amenable set, Literature by region, Top-coded, Nattura, Bidding function, Transient evidence More...
• Mediation Cabal: Robert Gray, Joie de Vivre, anarchy battlefield, Almeda University, Global warming, More...
• Cleanup backlogs - Review recent overhauls - Active fixup projects - Maintenance projects - Maintenance COTW: be merged