 Welcome to Wikipedia for beginners, in this video we'll look at your user page and talk page. If you've registered for a Wikipedia account, you'll have your own user page and talk page. You can get to your user page by clicking on your username in the top right corner. If you've recently signed up for an account, you might see this home page. This is a new feature, so if you have an older account you might not actually see this. The home page shows suggestions for Wikipedia articles you could edit and improve, and on the right also shows the impact of your edits. These are Wikipedia articles I've edited recently, and I can see how many views these articles have had since I last edited them. You can also get a mentor, who can be contacted for advice. If you're new, one will be assigned to you automatically. But if you don't have one, you can also get a mentor by clicking Get a Mentor. Finally, there's some links to help you get started on editing or creating a new Wikipedia article. If you want to turn this page off, or if you don't see it and want to turn it on, you can do this in the Preferences menu. In the top right corner, click the Person icon, click Preferences, and scroll down to the very bottom of the page. Then select or unselect the boxes in the Newcomer Editor Features section. Click Save when you're done. If you'd like to undo this, just follow the same steps. Let's go back to the user page now by clicking your username. As mentioned, if you turned off the homepage, you won't see this, but I kept mine on. So I need to now click the user page link to go to my actual user page. And this is it. If you've just joined Wikipedia, you may get a prompt to create your user page. We can do that in a moment. The user page is where you can introduce yourself to Wikipedia and let people know why you are there. You might say something about the topics that interest you, or list some of the Wikipedia articles you want to work on. You can write whatever you want, but please don't put any personal information on there. Because I work for Wikimedia Australia, I've added information explaining who I am. But for most people, adding your name or the name of your workplace might not be the best idea. You would usually only do this if you have a possible conflict of interest and want to declare it. So let's edit your user page. Click the edit link and start typing. If you didn't already have a user page, then you should see the same editing window and you can begin to type to create your page. Once you're done, click publish changes. You'll be prompted to add a short description of what you did. Feel free to write created page or added information about me, for example. And then you're done. Every Wikipedia article or page has a talk page, and you have one too. Click on talk to see the talk page connected to your account. This is where anyone can leave your message. There might be an automated message updating you on a recent edit, or someone might leave a message of additional information you could add to a Wikipedia article you created. You can reply to these by clicking reply underneath the message. And then click the reply button to publish it. You can also leave a message on another user's talk page. Just go to their user page and click talk. Then leave a message by clicking add topic at the top of the page. And then click add topic to publish a comment. You can edit your user page whenever you want. You can even customize it by adding photos or a user box with various bits of information about you. Find the user box page by going to the search bar at the top of Wikipedia and typing WP colon user boxes. This page will give you information about the different user boxes and how to add them. Have fun.