User talk:Mandrillware

Welcome
 Hello, Mandrillware, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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Mandrillware, good luck, and have fun. – Stinglehammer (talk) 14:01, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for coming yesterday
Hello again, ! Thank you so much for taking part in the training session yesterday. I hope that you enjoyed it and that we'll see you on Wiki again soon.

Now that you've learned the basics of editing using Wikipedia’s Visual Editor, I hope that you'll stay logged in and edit or create more articles. I've added some booklets and some links below that you may find useful. As a first step you may like to check out what What Wikipedia is not along with its 5 guiding principles: The 5 pillars.

If you're not feeling bold enough to write an (other) article straight away, why not try a small edit first, or adding a link? Don't worry about being perfect, Wiki is a constantly evolving entity. Fortunately there's a whole team of editors just like you who can help.

You can't break Wikipedia, but in case you're still nervous here are some pages that you might find helpful, especially the first one which covers the main things to remember about using Visual Editor.


 * Visual Editor user guide
 * Is your topic notable enough for an article?
 * Be Bold!
 * Don't let grumpy users scare you off.
 * Learn from others
 * How to write a great article
 * A simplified manual of style

The University of Edinburgh are also looking into running lots more edit-a-thons over the course of the residency where you could get extra practice in a friendly communal environment (with fellow editors, tea, coffee & biscuits) – details are still to be confirmed but will be updated on my project page here: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Remember, if you are writing on a talk page, please sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date.

If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. See you soon! Stinglehammer (talk) 14:05, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: David Millar (civil servant) has been accepted
 David Millar (civil servant), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! Doric Loon (talk) 13:17, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

The Society for Experimental Biology Event
Hi Mandrillware It was great seeing you at the event held by The Society for Experimental Biology 1.5 week ago! I just wanted to let you know that I and other editors are happy to help if you have any questions, and provide some useful resources: I hope to see you again sometime in the future, and good luck with your future editing! Rogalendingen (talk) 12:22, 12 June 2023 (UTC) (one of the Wikipedia trainers)
 * 1) If you enjoyed talking to other people about editing Wikipedia and its sister projects, there are other events you can join (many are hybrid) here (none are related to SEB). I often attend the events held by the University of Edinburgh.
 * 2) If you edit Wikipedia in your own time and have a question, here is a link to the Teahouse that Nick Moyes talked about. You can ask questions there whenever you like.
 * 3) Here is a link to the event page where you can find useful resources like short videos about how to edit Wikipedia. (That page might be moved/the title might change, so if that link does not work, you can find more resources here).
 * 4) If you want me to send the slides in an email to you, you can send me an email from my userpage (click on "reached by email" in the userbox with the text "This user can be reached by email.").
 * 5) Here is a summary of the outcome of the event. We edited 54 articles, created 2 new articles, and added almost 30 000 words and 2 images.

Referencing
Just following up on our Zoom chat at today's training event, where we spoke about referencing and ISBN lookups: I've just experimented with both editors. Firstly, I Googled the book and found that there was a different ISBN number on it to the one you gave in the Zoom chat.

However, I still couldn't get it to autofill the reference with the correct ISBN in Visual Editor at all.

I then switched to WP:Source Editor and managed only to get it to autofill the very basics. That can be seen in this citation.

I then used Source Editor to manually fill all the rest of the key fields as follows (noting that I thought I might want to re-use that reference again to support a different factual statement. So rather than add the first page number in the Cite book template, I chose to add it as a separate one (page 579) with the template. It looks like this

Unlike Visual Editor, I can choose what name to give my references, so I chose PlantPyhs. I can then reuse that citation, but give a different page number (e.g. page 201) next time. Like this

Note that because I found the hardback book online, I could include a url so that the reader can quickly view the whole book online and find pages 201 and 579 with ease.

You might be interested to view the source code for this post and note that the re-use of the reference simply calls up the other reference, and doesn't repeat it. It looks like this in source editor:

I realise you've manually filled in the citation now (diff), but I thought you might still find this helpful - or at least of some interest! Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 16:28, 5 October 2023 (UTC)