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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

Contents: Things you can do - Community - Work with other wikis - Help

• 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

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