Part of the Community Information Series

Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by its readers. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring and participating on this site.

• About Wikipedia
• Welcome, newcomers!
• Frequently asked questions

See also: Wikipedia's How to.

• How to explore Wikipedia
• How to search for an article
• How to edit a page. You can experiment with editing pages in the sandbox.
• How to start a new page
• How to use talk pages
• How to add images to pages
• How to use the Recent Changes page
• How to use the Related Changes page
• How to use the Go button
• How to log in
• How to set preferences
• How to rename (move) a page
• How to use redirect pages
• How to revert a page to an earlier version
• How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
• How to link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
• How to delete pages
• How to edit mathematical formulas using TeX
• How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
• How to produce graphics for pages
• How to add boilerplate text for readers
• How to contact us
• How to edit with an external editor
• How to use tables, or [1]
• How to link to sister projects

• Policies and guidelines for contributors
• Glossary of common Wikipedia terms
• How to write a great article
• Public domain resources
• Manual of style
• WikiProjects, writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines.
• Wikipedia utilities, the central repository of links to pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia.

• Contact us
• Village pump, a 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