User:Captain-tucker/Adoption Center/user-adopt-template

Hello User! This will be our discussion page for your adoption. Ask any questions you want by placing a question in it's own section, by titling the section using the format ==title here==, and then putting the question right below it. Please don't erase answered sections, as I would like to keep them. I will watch this page and respond as soon as possible to any of your questions. Your first task will be to put the following adopt template on your userpage:. I have put the corresponding template on my userpage.

The Basics
To help you start editing in Wikipedia, you should read The Five Pillars of Wikipedia, How to edit a page, Contributing to Wikipedia, the policies and guidelines, the editing FAQ, the tutorial, and the cheatsheet.

About me
I have been editing on Wikipedia since March 23, 2008. Wikipedia is a very large project and there are areas that I have not been involved with or have only limited knowledge, so I may not know the answer to all of your questions. But I will do my best to help you to learn the basics and hopefully make your editing experience more enjoyable. You can see from the userboxes on my user page my interests. I am usually online most of the day Monday — Friday with lesser online time during the weekends and I live in EST.

Intro survey
Hello again, User. If you could, please answer these questions to the best of your ability. The more information you give me, the more I'll be able to help you find a good place to get started. Naturally, don't spill your life story — remember this is still the internet, and anyone could read this page. So, if you don't feel comfortable answering something, don't worry, just skip it.


 * What subjects interested you in school? History, English, Math, Sports, etc.?


 * If you currently hold a job, what do you do? If not, what would you like to do?


 * Where do you live? (For privacy reasons, please don't be too specific. I'm just looking for country and/or state/province. If you happen to live in a large city, go ahead and include that if you want, but otherwise don't post your hometown.)


 * Are you good at reviewing other people's work (such as for grammar, spelling, style, or for grading)?


 * Are you comfortable using Wikimarkup yet, or do you still need some time getting it to work?


 * What do you expect your online editing frequency to be? A few pages every day, on the weekends only, online every few days, etc.

Tasks for you to do
The best way to learn about Wikipedia is to really do some editing. But Wikipedia is more than just editing articles so please go the my Adoption Center page and specifically take a look at the Adoptee Tasks section. You will see a list of tasks that I would like you to perform. These will hopefully help you learn some things about wikipedia. To get you started with wikimarkup there is also a brief summary of wikimarkup here. After each task you will copy your diff results here.