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Screencast on how to edit a Wikipedia talk page: transcript

User Ichdunich demonstrates in a short screencast how to add a new message to a talk page on Wikipedia, as of May 2020. The steps are to open the talk page, add a new section, write a headline and message, sign it and publish.

Key points

The speaker starts on Wikipedia's main page while logged in and clicks the talk link next to the username.
On the talk page, the new section button opens the edit window.
One box takes the subject headline and the larger edit window takes the message.
The signature button signs the message.
Scrolling down and clicking the blue publish changes button saves the edit.
The saved message shows the username, a link to the talk page and a timestamp.

Chapters

0:00Opening the talk page and starting a new section
0:44Writing, signing and publishing the message
1:49Quick recap of the steps

Full transcript

0:00Hello, I'm user Ichdunich and today I'll show you how to edit your talk page on Wikipedia. We start on Wikipedia's main page. On top of the page you can see my username Ichdunich. I'm already logged in. And on the right hand side there's the link to the talk page. So I click on that talk link and the talk page will open. And in order to add a new section, I hit the new section button and the edit window will open.

0:44So I have two boxes, one to fill in the subject headline, which is new message. And then I go below to the edit window and I write my message, which is hello there. please ask any questions anytime and I sign my message by clicking on the signature button this is that one So now I scroll down and on the bottom of the page, there's the blue publish changes button and that's it. My edit was saved and I can see the new message. Hello there, please ask any questions anytime, followed by my username, a link to my talk page and timestamp.

1:49so it's very easy go on your talk page click on a new section put in a headline put in the message press on the signature button and press publish and there you go

Source and licence

Recording: File:Edittalkpage.webm by Ichdunich (2020-05-24), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.