• Introduction to Wikipedia
• Sandbox
• About Wikipedia
• How to log in
• Why create an account?
  • Choosing a username
  • Sign the new-user log - introduce yourself!
• The Help Desk - post questions, receive answers
  
• Helping Hand Group - request a tutorial or help page be improved or created
  
• Donations - make Wikipedia possible

Who writes Wikipedia (essential information for new readers)

Browsing - how to:

• Search for an article (including "Go" button)
• Explore Wikipedia
• Use the what links here browsing tool
• Use talk pages (discussion pages)
  • Create talk archive subpages
• Use the Recent Changes page
• Use the Related Changes page
• Do research using Wikipedia
  • See also Category of resources for researchers).
• Play media files in Wikipedia
• Other Wikipedia languages

Navigation System

• Basic topics
• Navigation browse bar (see very top of this page)
  • Almanac
  • Categories
  • FAQs
  • Glossaries
  • Lists
  • Portals
  • Overviews
  • Site news
  • Index

Featured content

• Featured articles
• Featured pictures
• Featured lists
• Featured portals

Managing your account - how to:

• Customize your Wikipedia experience
  • Change your preferences
• Change your signature
• Change your username
• Delete your account
• Log in (troubleshooting)

Advanced customization

• Customizing your display with CSS

Welcome!
Overview of Wikipedia (All about Wikipedia)

• Category:Wikipedia
  

About Wikipedians

• Wikipedian culture
• Wikipedian humor
• Wikipedian games
  
• Category-based access to pages about Wikipedia
  
• Glossary of common Wikipedia terms
  
• What Wikipedia is not
  
• Another way to browse help topics
  
• Category:Wikipedia how-to (a full list of help topics)

• FAQ list
  
• Overview FAQ
  
• Administration FAQ
  
• Contributing FAQ
  
• Editing FAQ
  
• Schools FAQ
  
• Misc FAQ
  
• Problems FAQ
  
• Readers' FAQ
  
• Technical FAQ
  

Asking questions

• Requests for administrator attention, to get help from an administrator.
  
• Reference desk, request an article or information you can't find. See also Requested articles.
  
• Help desk for users with questions about Wikipedia or editing.
  
• Each article has a Talk page — click on the article's discussion link — to read or take part in discussions about the article.
  
• General Complaints, for discussing problems with the way Wikipedia is designed and making suggestions for improvement.
  
• Village pump is the place for technical and policy issues.
  
• The Helping Hand Group is the place for requests for improvement or creation of Wikipedia tutorials or help files.
  

Getting in touch

• Contact us
  
• Discussion pages
  
• User pages
  
• Babel - multi-lingual Wikipedians
  
• Wikipedia mailing lists
  
• Chat with other users on IRC
  
• Get involved at the Community Portal
  
• Village pump
  
  • News
  • Policy
  • Technical
  • Proposals
  • Assistance
  • Miscellaneous
    
• Bug reports and feature requests
  
• Wikipedians
  
• Surveys
  
• 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
  
• Instant Messaging
  
• In person meetings

Keeping informed: News

• The Signpost - Wikipedia's newspaper
  
• Wikipedia in the media
  
• Goings-on
  
• Announcements
  
• Press releases
  
• Stats
  
• Milestones
  
• Regional notice boards
  

• Special pages
  
• Recent changes
  
• Enhanced recent changes
  
• Related changes
  
• Watching pages
  
  • Public watchlists
    
• Page history
  
• Diff
  
• User contributions
  
• Edit summary
  
• Minor edit

• Press Kit resources for press enquiries

• Tutorial
  
• Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors). See also the *Five Pillars.
  

Editing - how to:

• How to edit a page, including markup details.
• 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.)
• Cheat sheet (editor's cheat sheet - keep this open in another window)
• Use sections in an article
• Test edits, and other things
• Revert a page to an earlier version
• Use categories
• Use redirect pages
• Do a purge
• Edit an article so long that you can't edit
• edit with an external editor
• See also Advanced editing below

Saving - how to:

• Report an edit summary
• Handle an edit conflict
• Use minor edit

Creating links - how to:

• Link Wikipedia articles
  • Use an alternate link descriptor (the piped link)
• Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
• Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
• Create links to external pages
• Use page names
• Use namespaces
• Use headings as anchors' to link to

Creating pages - how to:

• Start a new page
• Naming conventions
• Create pages for topics with several different definitions

Deletion, moving, and protection

• Deleting a page (full policy)
  
• Moving a page (naming policies)
  
• Protecting a page (full policy)
  
• Reverting a page
  

Contributing - how to:

• Start a new page
• Name and rename a page
• Improve an article
• Write your first article
• Write a better article
• Write a great article
• Write the perfect article
  
• contribute to articles outside your native language
• Resolve disputes
• Find out where your help is needed at the Community Portal

Style

• Manual of style
• List of style guidelines
• WikiProjects, writing and style guidelines for specific subjects

Sources

• Cite the sources: How | Why | What is a reliable source?
• Sources for articles
• List of Resources for researchers
• Public domain resources
• Newspapers and magazines request service

• Featuring an article
  
• Featuring pictures
  
• Featuring lists
  
• Peer review
  
• Administrator nominations
  

File:Ac050.gif File management - how to:

• Start a new page
• Move and merge a page
• Delete pages/images/categories
• Protect and unprotect pages (sysops only)

Formatting - how to:

• Use Wiki markup codes
• HTML codes in wikitext
• Use tables
• Use special characters
• Use easy timeline syntax
• Edit mathematical formulae using TeX

Templates

• A quick guide to templates
• Templates
• Boilerplate text
• List of available templates

Using images

• Image use policy
• Images and multimedia
• Image list

Images - how to:

• Use images
• Upload files to Wikipedia
• Understand the image description page
• Create graphics for pages

File:Nuvola apps clanbomber.png Resolving conflicts

• Stay cool!
• Be nice to newcomers
• Alert others
• Request assistance from a members' advocate
• Dispute resolution
• Arbitration policy

Super-advanced editing

• Help:Editing shortcuts
• Tools
  • Editing toolbar
  • "Magic words"
• Variables

• Overview of policies
  
• Simplified ruleset for beginners
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
  
• Neutral point of view (NPOV)
  
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
  
• Copyright
  
• Editing policy
  
• Manual of Style
  
• Layout
• Naming conventions
• Disambiguation
• Captions
  
• Image use
  
• Citing Wikipedia
  
• Libel
  
• Wikipedia etiquette
  
• Be bold!

• About Wikimedia
  
• The MediaWiki software
• 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.
• Requests and bug reports
  
• Browser notes
  
• Bots
  
• How to Download Wikipedia content
  
  • Database download
    
  • Export page(s) in XML
    

Wikipedia's sister projects

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