User:Dirk Franke/IGB-6

or  by placing it between   apostrophes.
 * within Wikipedia are added using  square brackets.


 * Communication on talk pages is complete with a wiki-style "signature", using the signature button in the edit toolbar Signature_button.png. The written signature command will look like this: . The wikipedia software will produce a link to you userpage and a timestamp, once you publish the changes.

The cheatsheet lists more useful commands, if you want to try more.

Communicating on-wiki using talkpages
With your user account registered and user page created, you are now able to get in touch with other Wikipedians and to write and receive messages. This is extremely helpful for coordinating work on articles or in case of any questions. From now on, we will use this way of communication also for this course. That means, you will get feedback "onwiki" and will ask your questions there.

There are several ways to communicate:


 * 1) Write on a talk page of on any article talk page. Sign your message with your signature. That way, others will be able to react to your statement and to get back to you directly.
 * 2) Others may leave messages on your user talk page and you can leave messages on their user talk pages.
 * 3) If you want to communicate out of the public sphere, there is an email functionality provided. You enter your text into a form and it will be sent via email to the other user. That user will see your email adress, and may reply to that adress directly.

Click to see a screencast where I show you how to edit a talk page.

Please leave a message on my talk page: user talk:Dirk Franke, so I can see whether the editing works for you. Don't forget your signature! I will in turn post a message on your userpage. Also, I am creating a Home page for the course, where I will add links to the user pages of all participants as well as to the articles which you have chosen to work on.

First milestone complete!
Now you have learned about the five pillars of Wikipedia and you have found some articles which you would like to improve. You have registered your own account and created a user page. Finally, you started communication on talk pages. Congratulations!

If things did not quite work yet: don't worry, we will sort it all out in our upcoming video call.

Click to continue with lesson #7