Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by people from around the world. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the Wikipedia community.

• Frequently-asked questions
• Policies and guidelines for contributors
• Glossary of common Wikipedia terms
• Style and How-to Directory
• How to write a great article
• Public domain resources
• Manual of style
• Contributing to articles outside your native language
• WikiProjects, writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines.
• Topical index, a collection of links to pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia.

• Contact us
• General Complaints for things in general (that is, a problem on more than one page) that could be fixed or made better.
• Help desk for newcomers with questions about Wikipedia or editing.
• Village pump, a discussion forum to ask questions not answered here or in the FAQs.
• Reference desk, request an article or information. See also Requested articles.
• Wikipedia mailing lists
• Chat with other users on IRC
• Bug reports and feature requests
• Wikipedians
• Meta Wikipedia, a site that works alongside the main Wikipedia project. Here you can post essays and discussions about topics related to Wikipedia.
• Contingency page for when the main Wikipedia server is down

• MediaWiki User's Guide (links to another website)

  For those who have installed the MediaWiki software that runs this site, and need help using it.

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