So i wanted to be a welcomer and it said u need 300 contributes i have one how do u get them.
You need to keep editing on the site, and make good ones, too. Any edit to anything on the site shows up in your contributions list. If you need to know the number of contributions, however, that can be found at the bottom of your user page.
Oh so u edit articles isnt 300 articles to edit alot @McDonalds1
You do not have to edit 300 articles. That is not what I mean, nor is it what they are talking about. It means to make 300 edits in general.
I guesse alot of people want to be welcomers
Is there something specific cause ive been patrol and helping alot (not editing though) and i only have 1 @McDonalds1
I believe that what it shows on your user page is the contributions that you made to articles. I think that rollbacks made through the Recent Changes Patrol tool would count, but I am not sure.
If you want to get 300 quickly, I suggest spellcheck and patrolling. Categorization is also good once you’re a little more familiar with the categories and everything.
Lojjik
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Try using some of the tools on the Community Dashboard. It’s important to focus on making quality edits rather than merely a large number of them.
If you’re wondering why we have this requirement, it’s because we like our welcomers to have some experience with the site so they can feel comfortable fielding questions from newcomers. If you’re a new person yourself, this would be more challenging.
Marina
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^To add onto what Lojjik said, don’t rush the 300 contributions process. You’re going to be dealing with a lot of questions if you become a welcomer. Therefore its important that you can answer the majority, if not all of them, and know which users to send newbies to if you can help them. Don’t rush the process. Take your time and let yourself figure out how the community works. We always need new Welcomers anyway.
+1I agree with Marina on this one.
It’s better focusing on the quality of the article and how detailed the edit will be instead of how much you can do. Quality is in fact better that quantity.
Besides, your account has to be at least 1 month before you start to try out for welcomer. Hope this helps!
Try leaving comments on WikiHowian’s talk pages and using most of the tools on the Patrol Board.
system
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Everyone was once a newcomer to wikiHow. Try asking yourself questions that you once had when starting to edit here. No question is a stupid one, so even as a welcomer or a random editor reaching out for assistance, you’ll get questions such as, “How do you change a title?” or “I saw ____ while patrolling, where do I report it?” Trying to edit just to get the minimum won’t help you when you do make the minimum, nor would help you in the future.
You can learn a lot about the wikiHow community, members, and processes by conscientiously patrolling recent changes, by carefully analyzing the coaching messages of others, and by monitoring questions to and responses by the Help Team. If you fix the errors you see while patrolling, you will accumulate edits as you learn. When the time comes, you should have a good idea how to be friendly, welcoming, and helpful. Remember that welcoming involves thanking newer wikiHowians for the effort they have made thus far and extending a friendly invitation to contribute further. Coaching is NOT a part of the welcoming process, but fielding a few questions and providing the appropriate resource(s) - link(s) to an article or to a knowledgeable wikiHowian’s talk page - is, … and this is inevitable.
Ehh, I’m not so sure leaving messages on user’s talk page is a good idea, @Crystal2
? All the messages create more work on RC, and even if you are leaving messages, keep it in wikiHow-related, please!
Anyway, editing takes some time and there are always lots of articles to edit! Maybe try copyediting articles? This is an excellent way to edit articles that need a few edits (major, in some cases).
No problem, @Ms-Legit
! Thanks for signing up to wikiHow in the first place
