Kiwidebbie

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Hello, Kiwidebbie, and welcome to Wikisource! Thank you for joining the project. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• Help pages, especially for proofreading
• Help:Beginner's guide to Wikisource
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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 10:25, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

DNBer?

Thought that I would leave a special note, as we wouldn't want for you to miss the opportunity to join our magnificent project Wikisource:WikiProject DNB in its quest to transcribe all of the DNB. We have tried to tie together our learnings, shortcuts, and other information about what we are doing with the work, and try to be helpful and welcoming to all. Also see following a little bit of autotext ...

The mysterious Header toggle button

When proofreading in the Page: namespace and one has their toolbar turned on [Gadgets | Editing (tab) | Editing toolbar (checkbox)], one will see the button , and clicking it toggles the header/footer on and off. In this space we put the relevant components for top and bottoms of pages by use of the template {{RunningHeader}}, so for example {{RunningHeader|Stanhope|3|Stanhope}} produces

I personally have my header/footer set to open in the Page: namespace and I achieved this by activating that option in my Gadgets. — billinghurst sDrewth 10:25, 1 January 2011 (UTC)