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 3. You will now be taken to a page with a form where you can create your user page. Feel free to write a bit about yourself. If you want to link words in your statement to other Wikipedia articles, use the Link button in the toolbar. To get started, consider putting some information about the country you are editing from. Try adding two lines of text to the page:
 * Portal:Australia

The first provides a link to a page that provides information of interest to Australian contributors, while the second adds a small box stating that you are editing from Australia. You can check your changes at any time by selecting Show Preview, and select Save Page when ready.

4. Now that you have a User page you can try adding a category using HotCat. If HotCat has been enabled (through My Preferences), at the bottom of your user page should be a small blue link saying Categories. To the right of the link should be a “+” sign, clicking on that will open a text box in which you can add your chosen category. To start with, add “Wikipedians in Australia” to the box and click save. Once it’s there you can select the category and have a look around at some of your fellow contributors. Have a look at their user pages, you may find some interesting people and gain some good ideas as to how to further develop your own page.

More detailed information on User Pages can be found through Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_page

2.1–My Preferences

Clicking on the My Preferences option mentioned above will bring you to a page where you can change how you view Wikipedia, and provide some additional functionality that can be useful. The first tab, user profile will give some basic information about your account - how long you have been editing, any special permissions you may have, your email account and the ability to change your password.

To make editing easier, make sure the following two settings are activated.
 * The Date and time tab will allow you to set the timezone in which you reside. This will automatically adjust some information (such as the times that appear on your watchlist) to your local time.
 * The 'Gadgets tab provides extra features to make editing easier: in particular, HotCat is worth enabling, as it streamlines the all-important process of adding categories to pages.

More detailed information on My Preferences can be found through Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:My_preferences Wikipedia Training Manual