Hello, TechnicalEngineerA3! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Technical 13 (talk) 11:55, 1 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I am interested in the technical aspects of Wikipedia. Initially I thought that Wikipedia used HTML as its source code, yet more recently upon pressing the "view source" of a protected page I have discovered a unique syntax you seem to refer to as 'wikicode', since then I have been looking at Wikipedia's templates which seem to begin and end with two '{' facing both directions. I have recently come across this 'helpme' template, so I thought I would aid in the technical aspects of Wikipedia. I am really interested of the efficiency of the efficiency and robustness of the HTML to WIKI-CODE (or vice versa) converters. But, if there are any fees involved with Wikipedia, I am not interested!
Hi! For basic information on Wikipedia you could try the Wikipedia article. No, there are no fees involved.
For an introduction to the 'wikicode', try Help:Wiki markup; for deeper information try Help:HTML in wikitext, Help:Magic words and Help:Template. The conversion of wikicode to HTML is handled by the MediaWiki software. It's all open source, so if you really want to explore how the conversion is done, you can download the source code.
Hi! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
Hi! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
And I've removed your talk page access, for obvious reasons. Your little brother may have done that blood test nonsense (sure), but that's beside the point. Drmies (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
