Wikipedia:Welcoming Committee

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This page is a resource (primarily) for new contributors who face the daunting learning curve of Wikipedia. When you're 'stuck', someone listed on the first entry may give you the fastest relief, especially if you can network with a few and find a few people that are generally likely to work at the same time as you are prone to do; these are folks who have self-identified themselves as persons willing to do a little mentoring and helping.

The second link tells you who we are and the task of the committee, and the 'See also' list is notable.

• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/members — same as WP:WC/M (see below on shortcuts)
• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee — same as WP:Wc (see below on shortcuts) — and Mission Statement of the Welcoming Committee.

Hints:

• Navigate to their user or user talk page and examine their activities to see if they're 'On' or have been recently when time is pressing you!
• You can always make a save and revert yourself to a prior 'stable' version, pending an answer on a difficulty!

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Newcomers help page—Posts here get responses from a patrolling 'experienced' wikipedians very quickly. Folks who answer queries here regularly are usually dedicated to helping newcomers, or they wouldn't be patrolling here!

Most anyone on these lists will help you as well:

1. AdminList Categorized by Recent Activity
2. Complete by uncategorized list of Administrators
3. Wikipedia:New user log — Sign up here, and establish a good reputation!
4. Wikipedia: Shortcuts — A good place to check on high traffic pages which may be exactly what you need!

[edit] For welcoming new users

• Wikipedia:Welcome templates
• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
• Wikipedia:Standard user greeting