User talk:Amanna Eile

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde

And So It Begins
Registered: 01:55, 7 May 2012

Finally discovered help for making the actual user page: 18:25, 24 May 2012
 * ('Help' is defined here as: 'what other editors have found useful & design ideas for putting the page together.')

No time was wasted while wandering about: there are dozens of useful pages, and an informal, self-guided tour turns up all sorts of unsuspected treasures. Too many to remember, so Lists are important.

Unsorted Reading & Resource List

 * User Page Design Center
 * Help
 * The Missing Manual
 * Basic Tutorials in editing, formatting, linking, citation, talk pages, etc.
 * Edit Summary - the official guidlines
 * Edit Summary Legend - an essay with supplementary information
 * Go to the Edit Summary Help page for confusions
 * Edit Summary Quick Reference is the cheat sheet of shorthand for edit summary notes

The Wikipedia interface

 * Page history
 * Talk pages
 * Recent changes page
 * Related changes page
 * Using "What links here"
 * Diff pages

Browsing Wikipedia

 * Keyboard shortcuts
 * Pronouncing words shown in IPA

Activity List

 * Classify items as
 * "Need to Know"
 * "Resources"
 * "Community"
 * "Useful Background"
 * "Have Some Fun -- After all, You Graduated When 'Web' meant 'Get a Broom'"


 * Sort Reading Lists by priority
 * Read something from the rest of the reading list every few days
 * Create sub-pages for lists, leaving the high priority and fun lists out front.
 * Before moving lists, find out if it is allowed and acceptable
 * Classify links to User Page guidelines, UP help, and UP FAQ pages as priority items
 * Include links to to community pages that may address acceptability of particular types of actions under "Resources" and "Community"


 * Collect cheat sheets, beginning with Wiki markup
 * Try to remember anything I once knew about IRC (and look up the help pages)
 * Find and investigate that tea room, where newbies can get acquainted


 * Locate the antibiotic ointment in case the "Newbie" label isn't obvious
 * Try to remember what I thought needed editing so badly that I signed up to help with it

Reminders

 * Don't try to do it all at once
 * Remember there is another world out there
 * Add links from saved tab groups
 * Make your own book as interesting as the Wikipedia project