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Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, , and welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is one of the world's fastest growing internet sites. We aim to build the biggest and most comprehensive encyclopaedia in the world. To date we have over four million articles in a host of languages. The English language Wikipedia alone has over one million articles! But we still need more! Please feel free to contribute your knowledge and expertise to our site. 

If you need help see:
Help contents - the main help page.
Quick guide - a ""cheatsheet"" listing the main editing commands.

Here are a few more good links for newcomers:
The five pillars of Wikipedia
How to edit a page
Tutorial
How to write a great article
Manual of Style

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using three tildes (~~~), or four (~~~~) if you want date stamp; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.  Again, welcome! talk "