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See also Wikipedia:Questions, for other places to get answers.
- Overview FAQ – General questions about the Wikipedia project.
- Readers' FAQ – Finding, reading and using Wikipedia material.
- Schools' and Teachers' FAQ – Using Wikipedia in the classroom.
- Business' FAQ – Guidelines for businesses about how you are represented in Wikipedia.
- Contributing FAQ – Why you might want to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and how you can do it.
- Editing FAQ – The ins and outs of creating and editing Wikipedia pages.
- Administration FAQ – What an administrator (or "sysop") is, sysop status, and server administration.
- Technical FAQ – Questions about Wikipedia software and hardware and their limitations.
- Problems FAQ – Questions relating to past or present difficulties and criticism.
- Article subjects' FAQ – Questions relating to an article about you, someone you represent, or your organization.
- Copyright FAQ – Questions pertaining to copyright issues.
- Miscellaneous FAQ – Everything else.
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Getting started
Browsing Wikipedia
Editing Wikipedia
To learn how to keep track of your edits (or other people's), see keeping track of changes.
For lists of stub types, categories and infoboxes, etc., see resources and lists.
To use an image, see images and media.
To learn the rules of Wikipedia, see policies and guidelines.
- Contributing to Wikipedia - a guide on ways to get involved in Wikipedia.
- Introduction to the project.
- Tutorial - a tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia
- Cheatsheet - an editing reference card.
- Simplified ruleset - essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
- Glossary - defining Wikipedia jargon.
Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox. You can also carry out editing experiments "in situ" by editing the page itself and using the Show preview button. Be careful not to accidentally save the page though! If you do, then revert your changes.
| Style and formatting |
| Manual of Style and its subpages |
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- Edit a page, including markup details.
- Help:Editing - annotated cheatsheet
- Bite sized tips for the most common tasks.
- Create links and change the title of a link (pipe a link)
- Use sections in an article
- Use categories
- Insert a picture
- Use redirect pages
- Create infoboxes
- Create templates, using a quick guide and a list of available templates
- Create lists
- Use footnotes and references
- Use tables
- Use mathematical formulae
- Use special characters. The display of fonts and other character sets in your browser.
- Use easy timeline syntax
- Valid HTML codes in wikitext
- Use "magic words" and variables. These allow you to change default behaviour or automate text. For example, you can disable a Table of Contents, move its position or insert constants and timestamps.
Saving - how to:
- Report your change in the edit summary
- Handle an edit conflict
- Use minor edits
- Use the "Show preview" button
Creating pages - how to:
- Write your first article
- Start a new page - for pages that are not articles
- Name a page
- Naming conventions in general - (full list of specific naming conventions)
- Disambiguation, create pages for topics with several different definitions
- Create subpages
Article maintenance - how to:
- Merge two or more pages and move (rename) a page - (Requested moves)
- Delete pages/images/categories
- Categorize
- Stub articles - (List of stub types)
- Use talk pages (discussion pages)
- Archive a talk page
- Revert a page to an earlier version
- Deal with vandalism
- Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
- Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
- Link words in articles to Wikimedia sister projects
- Use page names
- Use namespaces
- Use headings as anchors to link to
- Translate articles
- Archive Current Events
- Do a purge
- Edit with a text editor
- Test edits and other things
- Editing shortcuts
- Wikipedia style guidelines
- Guide to layout
- Captions
- Disambiguation pages
- Image use policy
- Naming conventions
- Using proper names
- Creating an article series
- Summary style techniques
- When to use tables
Manual of Style
The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for Wikipedia articles. See a full list of the submanuals on the right, or a concise list below.
- Main Manual of Style
- Abbreviations
- Biographies
- Dates and numbers
- Disambiguation pages
- Headings
- Links
- Mathematics
- Pronunciation
- Titles
- Trademarks
- Wikimedia sister projects
- Article development - lists the stages in the life of an article
- Your first article
- Starting a new page - for creating pages other than articles
- Guide to writing better articles
- The perfect article - a checklist of components required to make the perfect article.
Find your way around the screen:
- Edit toolbar
- Page history
- User contributions pages
- Talk pages
- Recent changes page
- Related changes page
- Diff pages
- Edit conflicts
Links and references
Images and media
Keeping track of changes
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Policies and guidelines
Communication methods
The Wikipedia community
Resources and lists
Account settings and maintenance
Technical information
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