User talk:Swim123blue

Welcome
 Hello Swim123blue, 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.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.

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 * If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills without changing the mainspace, the Sandbox is for you.

Swim123blue, good luck, and have fun. – Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 07:43, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Swim123blue! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 04:48, Thursday, January 21, 2016 (UTC)

Regarding your question
Hi there Swim123blue, sorry for my late reply. I can't specifically say how long it would take you to get familiar with the process as it varies from individual to individual. I've been here only for like 1 year and 6 months if that answers your question. In my opinion, it doesn't take much time to get acquainted with Wikimarkup if you follow the guidelines and tutorials. Wikimarkup is much easier to learn, and in most cases, easier than learning/understanding HTML. If you stick to Wikipedia:Core content policies and have a clear idea about What Wikipedia is not, you wouldn't be running into much trouble even if you don't know anything about Wikimarkup. Having a CS background is not a must to edit Wikipedia. Collaboration is what matters most here. For example, if you make a markup error, another editor will surely come along and fix it, and tell you about what you did wrong. Similarly, you can learn a lot from other's contributions. That's how I adopted to editing Wikipedia over the course. But you could absolutely follow a different path, like Adopt-a-user, for instance. And if you ever find yourself dumbfounded by a talkpage discussion, you could always ask the other party (or someone else) for further clarification(s). Don't hesitate to ask your questions at the Teahouse or Help desk even if it sounds trivial or ludicrous to you. Sucking at something is the first step to being sort of good at something, isn't it? Anways, you might find this Cheatsheet useful, and feel free to ping me whenever you need a helping hand. I see that you are already hitting it off with The Wikipedia Adventure. Keep up the good work. Cheers! -- ChamithN   (talk)  12:03, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Swim123blue! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 23:02, Monday, November 7, 2022 (UTC)