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Contact Users on their User pages

As in Wikipedia, all registered user have their own user pages connected to their personal talk pages. If you leave someone a message on their talk page, they will receive a note the next time their screen is refreshed (or even an e-mail if they have asked for this service in their preferences).

That is the fast way to make sure a person gets your message.

Address all on the FactGrid Project chat

Use the FactGrid:Project chat to speak to the entire community.

Sign your posts

If you have written something on another User's page or in the FactGrid:Project chat sign your post with

--~~~~

When saving, this sequence will be converted into a signature with links to your user and your talk page and a date that matches the date of the version history as in --Olaf Simons (talk) 23:57, 3 April 2020 (CEST)

Design

If you get involved in a debate use colons at the beginning of each new paragraph to indent one step further and end your contributions with your signature.

This will make it easier to read the entire exchange.

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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.
-== Every registered user as a User page and a talk page coming with it ==
+== Contact Users on their User pages ==
 As in Wikipedia, all registered user have their own user pages connected to their personal talk pages. If you leave someone a message on their talk page, they will receive a note the next time their screen is refreshed (or even an e-mail if they have asked for this service in their preferences).
-Discussions on talk pages have the the advantage of happening right in the medium. Links into data records are easy to make. The debate is at the same moment publicly visible. If they result in solutions others these will be arranged under the eyes of everyone interested.
+That is the fast way to make sure a person gets your message.
-If you are discussing something on someone's user page, you can put this page on your personal [[Help:How do I keep track of what is happening on FactGrid?#Create your personal "Watchlist"|Watchlist]], this will allow you to check every now and then the ensuing exchange.
+== Address all on the FactGrid Project chat ==
+Use the [[FactGrid:Project chat]] to speak to the entire community.
-For the sake of clarity it is recommendable to keep threads together on the talk page on which they start. Additional clarity is gained if users indent their contributions with the help of colons preceding each new paragraph. A single colon at the beginning of a paragraph indents the text by one level.
+== Sign your posts ==
-Notes should eventually be signed. This is done with four tildes, in front of which you may put two spacers: '''<nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>'''. When saving, these characters will be converted into a signature with links to your user and your talk page and a date that matches the date of the version history as in --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] ([[User talk:Olaf Simons|talk]]) 23:57, 3 April 2020 (CEST)
+If you have written something on another User's page or in the [[FactGrid:Project chat]] sign your post with
+ <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>
+When saving, this sequence will be converted into a signature with links to your user and your talk page and a date that matches the date of the version history as in --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] ([[User talk:Olaf Simons|talk]]) 23:57, 3 April 2020 (CEST)
+== Design ==
+If you get involved in a debate use colons at the beginning of each new paragraph to indent one step further and end your contributions with your signature.
+:This will make it easier to read the entire exchange.
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