User:Gjjixzoh/Hello, and Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation!

Hello, and welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation! Ready to join a team of millions of people across the globe? Well, you can start anytime you want to, so why not start contributing your knowledge today? If you came here directly to the Meta-Wiki, then read this. This site is a place for documentation and coordination of a project called the Wikimedia Foundation. If you want to contribute, please visit Wikipedia here: https://www.wikipedia.org/, for a list of our sister projects.

We need your help!

As you know, almost anyone can access WMF and edit its sources. This is a great thing where thousands of people contribute every month, but a vast majority of Wikimedia's citations are rather unreliable or outdated. Lots of persons and entire countries do not have access to any pages because we do not have enough languages and translations included in our projects. There are thousands of vandals making inappropriate edits subtracting from WMF, and citations from unreliable sources made by these vandals are going unnoticed. People are reading false information. Wikimedia is no longer a reliable source. So, we need your help to give your contributions and clean up this part of the Wikimedia Foundation, and give more people more access to more knowledge, Which is the main goal of the project. So when you make an edit to a Wikimedia article, thousands, possibly millions of people get too see your edits, and they will then refer to your page in other articles. They will share it with social media, redistribute your work etc. and then the world just becomes a better place. You can even edit this essay to contribute! So go, Go save the world by typing on a keyboard! For help editing visit Help:Wikitext here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help%3AWikitext

How you can contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation

( For more detail and real guidelines for reliable sources, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources ) Translations If you know multiple languages, The WikiMedia Foundation greatly appreciates translations for articles. This means more people can get access to more knowledge, which is the main goal of WMF.

Corrections Grammar, Spelling, Typos, and Layout corrections or improvements are an easy way to help and contribute your work to WMF.

Check if sources are reliable See if the article is reliable and trustworthy for your work.

Students If you are a student and you would like to contribute to Wikimedia, this would be greatly appreciated. If you are, I would advise that you go to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to edit, because they have real College course material.

Vandalism Vandalism is when an editor purposefully publishes edits which subtract from the integrity of the Wikimedia project, mostly containing humor or rude content. However, sometimes an editor will make an edit to Wikimedia that sounds plausible and realistic, but in fact is not. These sorts of edits often go unnoticed. Therefore, it is our job as Wikimedians to rid of these inappropriate edits and thoroughly examine articles for these types of edits.

For Younger Editors

If you are one of our younger editors desiring to contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation, please visit this site for guidance. This page is basically saying that we appreciate our young editors and what they do, and they are no more or less important than other editors. But more importantly, never, under any circumstances do you give any personal information to anyone on this site. This means that you do not post your name, your address, your parents' information, your age, or any other information that says something about you. To the young editor, we really appreciate what you do. You don't know how much this helps. Don't give up.

How Does This Help Me?

You're probably saying "how does this help me"? Well, if you want a reason why, then the answer is this: When you make a page or edit, other Wikimedians will come around and build upon and edit your work, which leads to more knowledge you have access to, which in return lets you edit more pages, and so on. And it is even kind of fun to do! But the reason of Wikimedia is not to give advantage to yourself; It is to be charitable and give more people access to your work. Is is to know that someone, wherever they are, whoever they are, has read what you have made, and that's just the best thing.