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Biocrawler:Welcoming committee

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Contents
1 Who we are
2 What we do
3 How you can help
4 Members
5 See also
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Who we are

The welcoming committee is an informal group of Biocrawlerns who greet new users and help them get started. Members of the Welcoming Committee should be especially careful not to bite the newcomers, but other than that there are no requirements for joining us, and no responsibilities.

If you want to talk about how Biocrawler treats its newest members, this is a good place.

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What we do

The tradition of posting greetings for newcomers long pre-dates the name "welcoming committee", and all Biocrawlerns should be friendly and helpful to new users. We're just a group of people who see that as part of our work here. We also work on projects to make Biocrawler easier for new users.

The welcoming committee created the Biocrawler:Tutorial as a one-stop place to get basic information about contributing. See its talk page and the welcoming committee talk page for more discussion. Also, feel free to make changes there if you see something that could be improved.

We also created a place for new users to introduce themselves, at the new user log. You might want to suggest in your greetings that new users sign this log, so the community can meet them. If you're interested in interacting with newcomers, you can watchlist the new user log, or at least look at it periodically. It's nice if we respond to what they post there, especially if we can point them to pages or projects they'll be interested in.

We also help maintain pages like Welcome, newcomers and the various FAQs. This page gives a place to discuss how the entire system works, not just how individual pages can change.

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How you can help

If you want to help out, the most obvious thing you can do is post welcome messages, and be friendly and helpful with new users you meet. You can look over any of the tutorials, welcome pages, or FAQs and make or suggest improvements. You can also help us maintain the Biocrawler:Help desk, where new users ask questions. If you want to be part of any discussions that come up here, you can watchlist this page.

It's best to check a new user's contributions before welcoming them. Compliment them and thank them for the work they've done! You'll sometimes find that they're not new at all, but simply have a blank Talk page (in which case you might still welcome them, but with a note apologising for the lateness), or that they are new, but have done nothing but vandalise articles (in which case, depending upon the seriousness of their vandalism, you might add a welcome and a warning, or just add a warning).

Below is a list to which you can sign your name if you want to join our group. Note again that this confers neither responsibilities nor privileges. It's just a self-identification.

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Members

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See also

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