Project:New contributors/Greeters

Joining a community as extensive as Wikimedia can be confusing and hard at first. Luckily, the very nature of a community is that there are others to help you out.

Sometimes it's nice to have support while catching that first bug.

Greeters can help you:


 * Ask the right questions
 * Find the right answers
 * Connect with people that share your interests
 * Contribute to your first task
 * Locate a task you can complete
 * Solve a community problem, or find someone who can

Free software communities can be less open to diversity than they think. Greeters are interested in helping contributors who are having a harder time because of their abilities, age, gender, language, or cultural, ethnic, or economic background.

Find a greeter
Introduce yourself on the |Discussion page and share a little about why you're getting involved. If you have a specific question, it is a great place to get help.

You can also talk to individual greeters on their talk page. To access a talk page, click on the name of the user, and then click on the discussion tab.

New contributors may also enjoy the conversation on our IRC channel. It's easy to get on IRC (instructions).

Becoming a greeter
We have possible mentors for development projects. Greeters and mentors do similar jobs in helping community members, but greeting requires less technical expertise. If you are a regular community member, you are probably a good Greeter.

Become a greeter just by watching this page and adding yourself to the gallery. Please include a link to your profile, your areas of interest and the language(s) you speak. The picture/avatar is optional, defaulting to File:Wikimedia_Foundation_office_camera_shy.png.