Wikipedia:Simple start

Welcome to the Getting Started guide for the Simple English Wikipedia. What you may not know is that we are not just an encyclopedia, but a wiki-community as well– and you can join us. If you don't have an account already, why not create one now? If you create an account, you can: See all the changes you have made to pages at this wiki on your contributions page, and in the histories of the pages themselves. Control the way this Wikipedia looks and works for you, including choosing a different "skin", at your settings page. Keep track of changes anyone has made to any pages you like in your watchlist. Move pages from previous name to a new name. Contents: Things you can do - Community - Work with other wikis - Help

Things you can do Create an article Expand an article Simplify an article Clean up an article Update an article Merge (combine) many articles into one Other things you can do Fix double redirects (articles which direct to another redirected page) Fix orphan articles (articles with no links to them) Check facts in articles Check sources in articles Find an interesting fact in an article and propose the article for 'Did you know?' Making articles even better Some articles can be made into Good articles. Add articles or review ones there already. Improve or propose an article, so it can become Very good.

Community Visit Simple talk to ask questions or make suggestions for this Wikipedia Tell editors how they are doing in this project, or ask for a review. Talk about the rules. Do we need new ones? Should we change them? Read the latest Wikipedia announcements Talk to other users on the Simple English Wikipedia IRC Channel Ask an administrator for help Learn how to deal with vandalism Confirm your email address

Work with other wikis Coordinate with Wikipedias in other languages... Link with articles in Wikipedia's sister projects Link with articles in other languages Wikipedia sister projects Simple English Wiktionary, a dictionary and thesaurus in Simple English Wikispecies, a directory of species Wikisource, the free library with source texts Meta Wiki, where all Wikimedia projects are coordinated Wikimedia Commons, a place to share images and other media files between wikis Wikidata, a place to share data between wikis more...

Help Visit the Help Center for help on editing pages Read what Simple English Wikipedia is about Read about how to write Simple English articles Ask a question at Simple talk Use an article's talk page Try out your editing skills in the sandbox Report a vandal Read our Rules See our list of useful pages

Things you can do