Help talk:Introduction to Wikipedia

Building Deck

Need some tips and tricks for building the pro builds? Cody Pepper (talk) 19:38, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

@Cody Pepper: This talk page is for comments or discussion on how to improve the Help:Introduction to Wikipedia page. If you would like to ask further questions about the subject, please use the Help Desk. To ask a question not related to Help:Introduction to Wikipedia, click here for details of where to ask them. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

protect this page?

@ User:Oshwah should we semi protect this page?--Moxy (talk) 21:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

As an introduction guideline that's very highly referenced by new accounts and users needing help - yes, and I've done so. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 21:48, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you!--Moxy (talk) 22:21, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Better heading?

"Introduction to contributing to Wikipedia" seems non-optimal, because it's redundant with the page title, creates some confusion with the menu page, and comes across as a bit dry/lacks enthusiasm. Any suggestions for improving? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:52, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Interwiki links

Previously there was three separate introduction pages. They are later merged, so the merged one does not equal to any of them. However, the interwikis were simply combined - they are actually unsuitable for this page, and currectly this contain multiple pages in one same language.--GZWDer (talk) 00:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

How to become a reviewers

I want to become a reviewers in wikipedia please help me. Thans Chikukiri (talk) 07:01, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Chikukiri, it's unclear what you mean by "reviewer". You can get further help at WP:TH. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 09:45, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Ok

Chikukiri (talk) 10:05, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Random subpages for IPs aren't random

We show IPs a link to a "random" subpage of Draft:Sample page/, but because of how the randomness is achieved (with {{Random number}}), multiple users see the same draft subpage until this page is purged or the server cache cleared. This seems non-optimal; it leads to multiple users editing the same sandbox, but as it's not cleared between edits, subsequent users don't see the preload message, and it leads to a proliferation mostly test pages that often have to be deleted multiple times. Is there a better solution? Should we just point them to the normal Wikipedia:Sandbox for test edits? Ping Sdkb. — The Earwig ^talk 22:14, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

The Earwig, ack, I had a feeling that might be happening. The IP randomizer was something I set up quickly as a way to allow IPs to have a personalized prefilled sandbox the same way registered users do, but it's caused a lot more grief than I anticipated (see also here). I'm not really willing to go to bat to get the perfect optimal experience for people who ignore the clear suggestion to create an account (which appears to IPs directly above the sandbox), so I think I'll just instead send IPs to a soft redirect to the create an account page/communal sandbox. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:03, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Thanks. — The Earwig ^talk 00:15, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

The Earwig, created at Help:Introduction/IP sandbox. Would you mind semi-protecting it? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:36, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Done. — The Earwig ^talk 00:44, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks; the new flow is now implemented. The random subpages scheme will still be used for the summary pages at the end of individual modules, but those generate only a small fraction of the traffic this page does, so they should be much less of an issue. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 00:58, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Wait ... what?

"You can add content (preferably with references)"

Shouldn't new content (as opposed to copyediting) always have references? --Kent G. Budge (talk) 18:23, 1 February 2021 (UTC)