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Revision as of 14:13, 23 May 2004
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
How do I do that?
See also: Wikipedia's How to.
Using Wikipedia
- How to explore Wikipedia
- How to search for an article
- How to use talk 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 contact us
Modifying Wikipedia
- How to edit a page, including markup details. You can experiment with editing pages in the sandbox.
- How to start a new page
- How to add images to pages
- 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 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 edit with an external editor
- How to use tables, or [1]
- How to link to sister projects
- How to delete pages (sysops only)
- How to protect/unprotect pages (sysops only)
Information and resources for contributors
- 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.
- Topical index, a collection of links to pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia.[[2]]
Getting in touch
- Contact us
- General Complaints for things in general (that is, a problem on more than one page) that could be fixed or made better.
- 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