User talk:Mslater1

Welcome!
Hi Mslater1 -- we are excited to have Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Disorders Wiki as part of the Wikia community! Thanks for joining us, and we'd like to give you some tips to help you get started on making your wiki great.

Your first four steps:
1. Create your User Page - this is a great place to introduce yourself (and practice wiki-editing!)

2. Add a logo - learn how to create a logo image, then click here to add it to the wiki. Create an article on this wiki: width=30 3. Create your first 10 articles - use the box on the right to create ten pages, starting each one off with a few sentences. For example if you are starting a wiki on a TV show, you might create an article for each main character.

4. Edit your Main Page - add internal links ( like this ) to the ten articles you just created, and any other improvements you can think of.

Once you've done these four things, you've created a great starting point -- your wiki looks friendly and ready for visitors. You can then invite some friends to help you create the next twenty pages, and expand the ones you've built.

Keep going! The more pages you create and link to each other, the sooner that others who are searching for "Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Disorders Wiki" will be able find your project in search engines, read your content and join you in editing.

If you have more questions, we've provided a full set of help pages, or you can email us through our contact form. Don't forget to check out other wikis on Wikia for ideas on layout, organizing your pages, and more. Have fun!

Best wishes, Catherine Munro

Great start!
Hi Michelle,

You've gotten off to a fantastic start here -- I love the front page and the user stories idea, and the logo is lovely too. Please keep up the good work!

The key to getting a wiki off the ground is to keep building pages, and create lots of links between them. When you have enough pages with enough text that your site starts showing up in search engines when people search for "mastocytosis" or other keywords related to the disorder, then you will start attracting more readers and editors, and the wiki will really take off! Of course if you know interested people from other forums or mailing lists you can invite them too -- it's often most effective to ask them to help with a specific page rather than asking for a general "help me on the wiki".

Please let me know if you need more help with anything, from categorizing to customizing the colors. We're happy to provide help and advice, and we look forward to seeing this wiki thrive. — Catherine (talk) 16:50, October 7, 2009 (UTC)