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New User-Account guide.

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1 or 2 video(s)?
  1. From the angle of just registered: explain what they can now do with their account, what features are now available. Possibly to be embedded at MediaWiki:Welcomecreation
  2. From the angle of unregistered: explain why they might want an account

See outreach:Account Creation Improvement Project for further background info.

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Main points to cover.

(Gleaned from the above. Needs trimming for simplicity? Strikeout any needlessly-complex items, perhaps?)

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Your user account tutorial.

This tutorial will cover some of the main features that are available on Wikipedia, for an editor that has logged-in.

A brand new account can start new pages.

Many editors start by creating a userpage for themselves, which can contain links to a personal sandbox,

links to pages that are commonly referred to, [eg quick links to templates and projectpages etc]

and sometimes, background on the editor's interests. [eg possibly refer here to WP:COI#Declaring an interest ?]

A new account can also

Script

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