User talk:Ottomata

 Dear, Welcome to MediaWiki.org !

Yes, welcome! This site is dedicated to documenting the MediaWiki software, the software behind many wikis, including that of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Please, take a look at the following pages. They might prove useful to you as a newcomer here:
 * Project:About
 * How does MediaWiki work?
 * Help:Editing pages
 * Help:Navigation
 * Manual:FAQ

If you have any questions, please ask me on my talk page. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and find this site useful documentation of the MediaWiki software. Thanks, and regards, --MZMcBride (talk) 05:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Contributing to this wiki
I assume you're the person behind contributions such as this. A quick primer on MediaWiki discussion pages follows.


 * Always sign posts by appending the string ~ . This will add your username and a timestamp. There's a helpful button for this above the edit window.
 * Replies are generally indented using ":"s at the beginning of a line. Each subsequent ":" is a level deeper. For example:

produces...

Hello there. How are you? --User1 05:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi! I'm good, you? --User2 05:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Pretty good. Thanks for asking. --User1 05:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

That way it's much easier to identify replies. For multi-line replies, there are two syntax choices:

or...

Hope that helps, --MZMcBride (talk) 05:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)