Hello, Hide211! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 17:19, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, but I don't understand that question. What are you trying to do? The community portal provides lists of articles that need various types of improvement, some notes on recent develoments, including new featured content, and some links to pages offering further help or information. You'd use it by finding an article you feel like improving or a community discussion you're interested in, or just to keep an eye on things going on in the community. Huon (talk) 19:21, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) Editors who have steadily shown a dedication to the Wikipedia project may become admins via a Request for Administrator process. Normally, you would get nominated by another editor, although I suspect that some people have tried to nominate themselves. After the nomination, the nominee answers questions from other editors and those other editors express their support, opposition, or neutrality to this user becoming an admin. It resembles an election, but it takes considerably more than 50% support to succeed. A typical nominee has at least a couple of years experience at editing, several thousand edits, a clean record of good behavior, and has demonstrated, through their participation in Wikipedia processes, a good familiarity with many areas of editing, especially those that relate to the responsibilities of an admin.
Hello Hide211. Wikipedia has User rights, but they are not "stages", one does not progress from one to the other. The only other right given automatically is the extended confirmed right, granted to users with accounts over 30 days old that have at least 500 edits. All other user rights are given to people who need them to accomplish a specific task. Please see Wikipedia:User access levels for more information. I do wish to note that it's frowned upon to try and collect user rights without a demonstrated need for them. Howicus(Did I mess up?)18:38, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I can answer both of your questions here for you. For creating the user page, you can go to your User page itself and start editing there. (Click on the tab at the top of your talk page here called "User page" or go to User:Hide211 and edit the page there. As for becoming an admin, wait. Becoming an admin is not a big deal, and in order to be considered for adminship you are going to want a better understanding with how Wikipedia works, how to edit, etc. The adminship process is a stressful one, as you need to pass a review by Wikipedia users at our requests for adminship. Right now, I would learn how Wikipedia works better, don't even concern yourself with becoming an admin for at least a year I would say. Some users take years to become admins, I waited 10 years prior to "getting the mop". RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:30, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There isn't a "best" way, per se (there are plenty of "bad" ways...). A good way to begin is with the community's To-do list, which lists plenty of articles that require small but vital improvements such as spelling or grammar fixes, additional sources, better wikilinks, general cleanup and so on. Fixing these problems will get you used to editing, as well as helping Wikipedia out into the bargain. Yunshui雲水08:54, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to direct you to our "Article Wizard" at WP:WIZARD, which will help you decide whether the topic you want to write about is suitable for a Wikipedia article. At the end of the wizard, if your subject is suitable for Wikipedia, you will be given the option to create a draft and submit it for review by other editors as a part of the "Articles for Creation" project (WP:AFC). The members of this project are experienced editors, though there is much greater demand for their services than there is supply, so you may need to wait a while before your draft is reviewed.
Once you submit your draft, it will be placed into a category where it will be open for review by anyone who reviews submissions. If your submission is approved (which may take more than a month because of the current backlog) then an editor will accept it and you will be notified of the article's creation. If your submission is not accepted, a note will be left on the page describing what can be improved, and you will be notified of this via a message on your "Talk" page.
Note that if you are interested in the publication of an article to which you are very close (e.g., an article about a member of your family, your business, your club/organization/ school, or yourself) you probably have a conflict of interest: if so, it will be absolutely critical that you disclose this when you create the article. Please see Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest for information about doing so properly. If you do not do this, your user account may become permanently blocked and the article may be deleted.
Hello, regarding some of your edits to Ruffed lemur: please do not change spellings from one variety of English to another without good reason. Please see MOS:ENGVAR and the links there for more information. You will sometimes find a note at the top of the source detailimg the variety of English to be used. Please also see MOS:COMMA and MOS:SERIAL in respect of the use of commas. Thank you. Happy editing. Eagleash (talk) 11:12, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sometimes an article has a template {{Engvar}} visible near the top of the source text that specifies which variant is to be used. Other than that, certain common-sense rules apply: articles about specifically British subject will use British English, articles about American subjects will use American English. Any time you find you are about to make a bunch of changes based on the differences between American and British English, it might be a good idea to ask on the talk page of the aticle if these changes are justified until you get a better sense of what the conventions on WP are. — jmcgnh(talk)(contribs)05:42, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Are we talking *to* English or *from*? If the former, see WP:Translation. If the latter, you will need to read the equivalent policy on the Wikipedia for the language you're translating to. Note that in either case you must link to the revision history of the page you're translating from, and the result must comply with all policies on the Wikipedia the translation will be on (other than WP:NPOV, policies are not 1:1 across all Wikipedia projects). —Jeremyv^_^vBori!20:06, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Undid the undo
Hello. Since there was no explanation of your "un-do" of my revision of Archipelago, I restored it. If there is some objection, please explain it and I will refrain from restoring it again.
