User:Verbistheword/Interacting with Wikimedians

Further leads to pursue:
 * Category:Wikipedia basic information
 * Category:Wikipedia discussion
 * Category:Wikipedia interface help
 * Editor engagement
 * Notifications
 * Figure out how to make something like User talk:Harej/Editnotice, and talk about that here.

Get welcomed
A number of initiatives are aimed at new Wikipedia editors.
 * Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia
 * A primer for newcomers
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * The Wikipedia Adventure
 * Category:Wikipedia tutorials
 * Category:Wikipedia FAQs

Introduce yourself

 * Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage

Get help
The Teahouse invites new Wikipedia editors to ask questions. Experienced editors monitor the quesitons and often are very quick to answer.
 * Ask for help

Conversations
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual has a section on communicating with fellow editors.

Talk pages
Each Wikimedia account and article can have a talk page, where asynchronous typed messages can be exchanged. There are a variety of symbols you can use to indicate state of discussions.

Events
Wikimedians sometimes get together in person! These events might be an edit-a-thon, a meetup, or a Wikidojo, or they could be conferences, such as the yearly Wikimania.

Digital thanks
There are a number of different kinds of digital awards and even a WikiProject that aims to organize them.

"Thanks" notification
At the end of each change comment on an article's revision history has a "Thanks" link. Wikimedians can click on this link to send a simple notification to another Wikimedian.

Barnstars
Wikimedians can award barnstars to one other for anything they think is worth celebrating. There are many kinds of barnstars.

Read Wikimedian news
You can read about Wikimedia news on the Wikimedia blog or on Wikipedia Signpost, a "community-written and edited newspaper that covers stories, events, and reports related to the English Wikipedia."

Collaborate with other organizers
A group of local Wikimedians across the U.S. interact via a mailing list.