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Using Wikipedia
- How to explore Wikipedia
- How to download Wikipedia content
- How to search for an article
- How to use talk (discussion) pages
- How to create talk archive subpages
- 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 do research using Wikipedia
- How to customise your Wikipedia experience
- How to play media files in Wikipedia
- How to change your signature
Modifying a Wikipedia page
- Tutorial
- 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 name a page
- How to use categories
- How to use images (and the image use policy)
- How to use redirect pages
- How to use tables
- How to use templates (and the available templates)
- How to upload files to Wikipedia
- How to add boilerplate text
- How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
- How to move and merge a page
- How to delete pages/images/categories
- How to link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
- How to link to sister projects
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to edit with an external editor
- How to edit mathematical formulae using TeX
- How to produce graphics for pages
- How to protect/unprotect pages (sysops only)
- How to do a purge
Information and resources for contributors
- Category:Wikipedia style guidelines
- Category:Wikipedia how-to for a full list of help topics
- Who writes Wikipedia, essential information to understand when reading articles (for new readers)
- Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors)
- Category:Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
- Frequently asked questions
- Policies and guidelines for contributors
- Glossary of common Wikipedia terms
- 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
- Resolving disputes
Asking questions
- Reference desk, request an article or information you can't find. See also Requested articles.
- Help desk for newcomers with questions about Wikipedia or editing.
- Each article has a Talk page — click on the article's discussion link — for questions, reporting vandalism or discussions on the article.
- General Complaints is for addressing problems on more than one page.
- Village pump is the place for technical and policy issues.
Getting in touch
- Contact us
- 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
- 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.