User talk:Yann

Welcome to Simple.

Some helpful pages to start from are Wikipedia:Useful, Help:Contents and Wikipedia:Policy. If you want some ideas of which pages to work on, see the Community Portal. That page also has the latest news about this Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian.
SimonMayer 17:05, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Getting started

Hi Yann! Wow, I think you just might have one of the oldest accounts on this wiki! Thank you for showing interest in this new pilot for the Indian Education Program. I expect that your willingness to support the initiative is a great boost of confidence to its coordinators. What I'd like to do now is to try to match that confidence within the community by getting you and the other volunteers started in actively editing here. Because each version of Wikipedia works differently, our local editors understandably would like to see you familiarised with the project before taking on a team of students. Once we begin working together and start seeing you build up the necessary experience, I think everyone will have a lot more confident in the plan.

If you haven't already visited them, the links in your welcome message show the very basics of how to get started here. You will probably find writing in simple English difficult at first (I certainly did), but with practice you will get good at it. I keep a list of things here that can help in simplifying. There are lots of topics about India that don't have articles on this wiki yet, so there is plenty to do! I've started to draw up a list of some of these here. It's not finished yet, and if you see something that should be there, please feel free to add it! Also, every week or so, a new set of "most wanted" articles that this wiki doesn't yet have will get listed on WP:RC.

If you need any help whatsoever along the way, just leave me a message on my talk page and I'll reply as soon as I can with the answer. Once you start editing, you will find that most if not all other editors will be willing to give you a few tips if you need them. Good luck and have fun! Osiris (talk) 04:06, 4 July 2012 (UTC)