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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
See also Wikipedia:Questions, for other places to get answers.
General FAQs
Specific FAQs
See also
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Getting started
Browsing Wikipedia
Editing Wikipedia
To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see Keeping track of changes.
For lists of stub types, categories, infoboxes etc., see Resources and lists.
For image use, see Images and media.
To learn the rules of Wikipedia, see policies and guidelines.
- Contributing to Wikipedia a guide on ways to get involved in editing.
- Introduction to editing.
- Tutorial
- Cheatsheet, an editing reference card.
- Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
- The Glossary can help you understand Wikipedia jargon.
- Bite sized tips for the most common tasks.
Editing - 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.
- Help:Editing (extended cheat sheet - Hint: keep this open in another window)
- Use sections in an article
- Use categories
- Insert a picture
- Use redirect pages
- Create lists
- Use footnotes
- Use tables
- Use mathematical formulas
Saving - how to:
- Report your change in the edit summary
- Handle an edit conflict
- Use minor edits
- Use the preview button
Creating links - how to:
- Link Wikipedia articles
- Change the title of a link (the piped link)
- Create links to external pages
Creating pages - how to:
- Start a new page
- Name a page
- Create pages for topics with several different definitions (disambiguation)
- Naming conventions in general (full list of specific naming conventions)
- Stub articles (List of Stub Styles)
- User page design
Article maintenance - how to:
- Merge two or more pages or move (rename) a page (Requested moves)
- Delete pages/images/categories
- Categorize
- Use talk pages (discussion pages)
- Archive a talk page
- Revert a page to an earlier version
- Deal with vandalism
- Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
- Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
- Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
- Use page names
- Use namespaces
- Use headings as anchors to link to
- Translate articles
- Create subpages
- Archive Current Events
- Do a purge
- Edit with an external editor
- Test edits, and other things
Templates
- A quick guide to templates
- Templates
- List of available templates
The Wikipedia syntax
- Tables
- Infobox
- Redirect
- "Magic words" allow you to change default behaviour or automate text eg. you can disable a Table of Contents or move its position, or insert & automatically update the current date, month etc. See also: Variables.
- Editing shortcuts
- Valid HTML codes in wikitext
- Use special characters
- Use easy timeline syntax
- Edit mathematical formulae using TeX
Life cycle of an article
- Article development Lists the stages in an article's development and ways to help improve articles.
- Perfect articles Checklist of components required to make a "perfect" article.
- Start a new page
- Write your first article
- Write better articles Advice on how to write Wikipedia articles.
Style
- List of style guidelines
- Layout How to structure Wikipedia articles.
- Naming conventions
- Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
- Captions
- Image use
- When to use tables
- Use proper names
- Creating an article series
- Using Summary style on the overview page
Manual of Style
The Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide for Wikipedia articles.
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- Main Manual of Style
- Abbreviations
- Biographies
- Command-line examples
- Dashes
- Dates & numbers
- Disambiguation
- Headings
- Links
- Mathematics
- Pronunciation
- Titles
- Trademarks
- Sister projects
The Wikipedia interface
Find your way around the screen.
- Editing toolbar
- Using Page History
- Using User Contributions pages
- Using Talk pages
- Using the Recent Changes page
- Using the Related Changes page
- Using Diff pages
- Edit conflicts
Sources for Citation
- 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
- Standard letters requesting permission to use copyright works
Links
Images and media
Keeping track of changes
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Policies and guidelines
Communication methods
- Searching is the fastest and easiest way to find answers for factual questions.
- 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.
- New contributors' help page, for the new users who don't know what to do or how to do it.
- Each article has a Talk page — click on the article's discussion tab — 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.
- Requests for administrator attention, to get help from an administrator
- Village pump, the place for technical and policy issue discussions
Getting in touch
- Contact us
- Discussion pages
- User pages
- Babel - multi-lingual Wikipedians
- Wikipedia mailing lists
- Chat with other users on IRC
- Village pump
- News
- Policy
- Technical
- Proposals
- Assistance
- Miscellaneous
- Bug reports and feature requests
- Wikipedians
- Surveys
- Meta Wikipedia, the site that organizes all the Wikimedia projects
- Contingency page for when the main Wikipedia server is down
- Instant Messaging
- In person meetings
Keeping informed: News
- Community Portal, Bulletin board, collaborations, and updates - Wikipedia's hub of activity
- The Signpost – Wikipedia's newspaper
- News about Wikipedia
- Wikipedia in the media
- Wikipedia milestone announcements
- Wikizine, newsletter about the Wikimedia projects
- Press releases
- Stats
- Milestones
- Regional notice boards
The Wikipedia community
Resources and lists
Account settings and maintenance
Technical information
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