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[edit] Helpme

Here's my question:

I am interested in getting more seriously involved in wikipedia editing. I know the way to do it is just edit more, but there are still questions that I need answered. I've been doing my best to find them on my own, but I have many - is there anywhere that has a rough guide of the steps that you can take from being a casual editor to a serious one? The way I see it, you go from

Reader -> editor (anonymous) -> editor (username, but casual infrequent or minor edits) -> editor (serious!)

At least, that's the path I'd like to take. I want to know more about how to get involved in various projects, how to add all the neat formatting about my interests/contributions to my userpage, and more about page formatting than I know right now. I've got a handle on links and sections, I think, but there's a lot more I'm not nearly as familiar with. Is there somewhere that gives people an idea about how they can start taking this project more seriously? Most of the help I can easily find seems to be aimed at people who are making the transition from reader to casual editor. I'd appreciate any advice one of you veterans can offer me. MrCheshire 18:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Myself, I've found that it is really just the more you edit, the more you become familiar with the tools, I find a new feature almost every day in the course of editing - as to how serious you are, thats entirely your own perogative. :) Wikipedia:Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Guide to layout are the pages that go over generally how an article should be done and what should be included (with many, many links to further reading) With most projects, it is just a matter of finding the project page and reading their guidelines, and putting your name on their list... then editing articles in that field. -Dawson 18:20, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
There isn't much more to know. The key skills I think are: linking, headings, bold/italic, redirects, page moves, tables and templates (which are just tables in the Template namespace, and let you set out content in a powerful way. The best to use tables is just copying and pasting from other articles that make use of the features you want). I have given you some links to these skills, but essentially they way we all learnt is just by working on the encyclopedia and needing to use one of these skills.--Commander Keane 18:32, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

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I'll get a better picture next time I see him; unfortunately that's the best one I've got at the moment :) —bbatsell ¿? 23:47, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

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