User talk:ATMmachinePC

Welcome / nau mai[edit]

On behalf of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ), kia ora, hello, kia orana, nǐ hǎo, talofa lava, bula vinaka, guten Tag, hola, malo e leilei, fakalofa atu, namaste, salâm, see tahay. Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful.

General

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.

Specific to Aotearoa New Zealand

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand runs local in person meetups in some cities and has a regular series of events where you can find people to help you on your editing journey or just hang out with like-minded people. Check out local Meet Ups and online editathons
Join our Facebook group and follow us on Twitter
Think about becoming a member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. 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! And whilst you've been welcomed before, we do have a special welcome message for our fellow Kiwi editors. Schwede 66 02:19, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Hi ATMmachinePC! I noticed your contributions to New Zealand nuclear-free zone and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:

Learn more about editing

Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:

Get help at the Teahouse

If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:

Volunteer at the Task Center

Happy editing! ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 15:00, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks! ATMmachinePC (talk) 23:23, 5 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pings[edit]

If you want to notify another editor via a talk page discussion, you need to do things in the same edit:

place a ping, and
add (or change) a signature

If you do just one of those things, e.g. by placing the ping to an item that you had previously saved, nothing will happen. The easiest way to make things happen is to also change the signature, e.g. by manually adjusting the time the (second) edit is to be saved at. Schwede 66 05:02, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Schwede66, I was not aware of this behaviour. ATMmachinePC (talk) 05:06, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to have quite solid knowledge for a new editor. Is this a new account or are you a returning editor with a prior account? Schwede 66 05:07, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Schwede66. This is a new account, I haven't edited Wikipedia before, I've just been using the policy pages to inform myself. ATMmachinePC (talk) 05:12, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay[edit]

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede 66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]