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Hello, Welcome cookie, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum, see the Wikipedia Teahouse.
- Introduction
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- How to write a great article
- Simplified Manual of Style
- Your first article
- Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community
- Feel free to make test edits in the sandbox
- and check out the Task Center, for ideas about what to work on.
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! When editing a talk page using the source editor, sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end. (If you use the Reply tool, your signature is added automatically.) If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome!
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Usage
This welcome template is the Welcoming committee's most warm and personable greeting (We had to bake a thousand batches of cookies to get it just right!).
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Notes
Find subst count and examples of this template on User talk pages using this advanced search.[2026; 2025; 2024]