Help:How do I communicate on FactGrid?

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FactGrid is a Wikibase installation; the software is the same with which Wikidata runs: A MediaWiki (as known from Wikipedia) that also works as a database with a special extension.

As in Wikipedia, every registered user has their own user page with a discussion page. If you leave another message on their discussion page, they will receive a message the next time the screen is refreshed (and, if their personal account settings are set accordingly, also an email).

The discussion about the user pages has the advantage of happening in the middle of the medium. Links into data records are easy, for example. It is also public. Discussions from which solutions develop happen publicly, others can get involved at any time.

If you are discussing someone's user page, you can put this page on watch and use your Watchlist to regularly query what was going on in this exchange. This allows you to keep the exchange on the other side connected and still keep an eye on it.

For the sake of clarity, a sequence of contributions in a course of the debate should be preceded by colons. A colon at the beginning of a paragraph indents it by one level.

At the end, contributions should be electronically signed. This is done with four tildes, in front of which two spacers are usually placed - Olaf Simons (talk) 23:57, 3 April 2020 (CEST). When saved, these characters are converted into a signature with a link to their user page and their discussion page and a date that matches the version history: --Olaf Simons (talk) 23:57, 3 April 2020 (CEST)