Hello Szastrocky.2023! I'm responding here to your message on the project chat. This project is Wikidata, not Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia by humans, for humans. It has a lot of text and pictures that describe various topics. Wikidata is significantly different. While it covers many of the same topics as Wikipedia, it stores machine-readable data about them. The Wikipedia page about Douglas Adams says "Adams was born in Cambridge"; the Wikidata item about him has Douglas Adams (Q42)place of birth (P19)Cambridge (Q350) in a standardized format. What we do here is collect this data, and the references that support it, into a public repository.
If you are in fact looking for Wikipedia, you can check out their introduction to editing (you can use the same account); if you are in the right place, check out our introduction to editing. Below I've put the standard welcome for new users. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me or ask on the project chat.
Welcome to Wikidata, Szastrocky.2023!
Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike and you can go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!
Need some help getting started? Here are some pages you can familiarize yourself with:
- Introduction – An introduction to the project.
- Wikidata tours – Interactive tutorials to show you how Wikidata works.
- Community portal – The portal for community members.
- User options – including the 'Babel' extension, to set your language preferences.
- Contents – The main help page for editing and using the site.
- Project chat – Discussions about the project.
- Tools – A collection of user-developed tools to allow for easier completion of some tasks.
Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on Project chat. If you want to try out editing, you can use the sandbox to try. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and become an active editor for Wikidata.
Best regards! Vahurzpu (talk) 18:47, 20 October 2021 (UTC)