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Contents

Image:Nuvola apps kmessedwords.png   Getting Started
Image:Nuvola devices mouse.png   Browsing Wikipedia
Image:Nuvola apps keditbookmarks.png   Account Settings and Maintenance
Image:Nuvola apps kuser.png   The Wikipedia Community
Image:Wikipedia-logo.png   More about Wikipedia
Image:Nuvola apps agent.png   Policies, conventions and guidelines
Image:Nuvola apps remote.png   Communication
Image:Nuvola apps filetypes.png   Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Image:Nuvola apps package wordprocessing.png   Editing Wikipedia - The Basics
Image:Nuvola apps ksig.png   Contributing to Wikipedia
Image:Nuvola apps mycomputer.png   Advanced editing
Image:Nuvola apps kmplot.png   Tracking changes
Image:Nuvola apps kcontrol.png   Technical information
Image:Nuvola apps konquest.png   Fun stuff


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Image:Nuvola apps kmessedwords.png Getting Started

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
Boot Camp - learn about how Wikipedia works without all that military training
Helping Hand Group - request a tutorial or help page be improved or created
Glossary of Wikipedia terms
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Image:Nuvola devices mouse.png Browsing Wikipedia

Who writes Wikipedia (essential information for new readers)

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Image:Nuvola devices mouse.png Browsing - how to:

Search for an article (including "Go" button)
Explore Wikipedia
Use the what links here browsing tool
Use talk pages (discussion pages) ( full policy)
archiving talk pages to separate subpages.
Use the Recent Changes page
Patrolling the recent changes
Do research using Wikipedia
(See also Category of resources for researchers).
Play media files in Wikipedia
Other Wikipedia languages
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Image:Wikipedia-logo.png Main Page alternates

PDA version
Text only
Links only
Simple
Blue boy
Classic
Executive
Italian-style
Misty breeze
Regal
Shades of blue
Edit me
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Image:Nuvola apps browser.png Navigation System

Basic topics
Navigation browse bar (see very top of this page)
Almanac
Categories
FAQs
Glossaries
Lists
Portals
Overviews
Site news
Index
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Image:Cscr-featured.png Featured content

Featured articles
Featured pictures
Featured lists
Featured portals
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Image:Nuvola apps keditbookmarks.png Account settings and maintenance

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Image:Nuvola apps kuser.png The Wikipedia community

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Image:Nuvola apps kopete.pngWikipedian culture

Wikipedians
List of Wikipedians
WikiProjects: groups of Wikipedians creating standards on specific subjects
List of WikiProjects
Collaborations: Wikipedians focusing on one article for a set amount of time
List of collaborations
Wikipedian humor
Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
Wikipediholism
Unusual articles
Editcountitis
The edit counter
Wikipedian games
Awards
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Image:Nuvola apps looknfeel.png Vandalism

Reverting a page to undo vandalism (and the Three-revert rule)
Reporting vandalism to administrators (urgent cases only)
Persistent vandals
Current vandalism
The Counter Vandalism Unit
Most vandalized pages
Don't provoke the vandals!
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Image:Presa de decissions.png Voting and consensus

Feedback by editors, to editors.

Featuring an article
Featuring pictures
Featuring lists
Peer review
Administrator nominations

You can also ask the Wikipedia community to consider...

...deleting an article (full policy)
...moving a page or merging it with another (and how to actually do it)
...protecting a page (full policy)
...deleting, merging, or renaming a category
...deleting a template (or a stub type)
...deleting images and other media
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Image:Nuvola apps clanbomber.pngResolving disputes

Stay cool!
Be nice to newcomers
Alert others
Request assistance from a members' advocate
Dispute resolution
Arbitration policy
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Image:Wikipedia-logo.png More about Wikipedia

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Image:Nuvola apps agent.png Policies, conventions and guidelines

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Image:Nuvola apps remote.png Communication

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Image:Nuvola apps filetypes.png Asking questions

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Image:Nuvola apps korn.png 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
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Image:Nuvola apps knewsticker.png Keeping informed: News

Community Portal - bulletin board and update center, Wikipedia's hub of activity. Don't know what's going on or where to jump in and help? This is where to find out.
The Signpost - Wikipedia's newspaper
Wikipedia in the media
Wikipedia milestone announcements
Press releases
Stats
Milestones
Regional notice boards
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Image:Nuvola apps filetypes.png Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

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Image:Nuvola apps package wordprocessing.png Editing Wikipedia - The Basics

Tutorial
Simplified ruleset, essential information to understand when editing articles (for new editors).
For more advanced policies and guidelines, see that section on this page.
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Image:Nuvola apps package wordprocessing.png 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.
Cheat! (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
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Image:Nuvola apps kcmdevice.png Saving - how to:

Report your change in the edit summary
Handle an edit conflict
Use minor edits
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Image:Nuvola apps forward arrow.png 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
Link to related articles on sister projects
Create links to external pages
Use page names
Use namespaces
Use headings as anchors' to link to
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Image:Nuvola apps kcmdrkonqi.png Creating pages - how to:

Start a new page
Naming conventions in general (full list of specific naming conventions)
Create pages for topics with several different definitions
Create subpages
Stub articles (List of Stub Styles)
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Image:Nuvola apps ksig.png Contributing to Wikipedia

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Image:Nuvola apps cookie.png Lifecycle of an article - 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
Translate articles
Find out where your help is needed at the Community Portal
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Image:Nuvola apps edu miscellaneous.png Style

List of style guidelines
Layout
Naming conventions
Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
Captions
Image use
Manual of Style
Biographies
Command-line examples
Dashes
Dates & numbers
Disambiguation
Headings
Links
Mathematics
Pronunciation
Titles
Trademarks
How to link to Wikimedia projects
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Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.png 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
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Image:Nuvola apps mycomputer.png Advanced editing

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Image:Nuvola apps package system.png File management - how to:

Start a new page
Move and merge a page
Delete pages/images/categories
Protect and unprotect pages (sysops only)
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Image:Nuvola apps kig.png 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
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Image:Nuvola apps kcolorchooser.png Templates

A quick guide to templates
Templates
Boilerplate text
List of available templates
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Image:Nuvola filesystems camera.png Images

Place images into articles
How to upload files to Wikipedia (and the actual form)
Understand the image description page
Create graphics for pages
Image use policy
Images and multimedia
Image list
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Image:Nuvola apps kgpg.png Administrator privileges

Administrator nominations
Administrators page
List of administrators
Administration FAQ
Administrator's reading list
Bureaucrats
Elections
Meta
Purge
Fix cut & paste moves
Page protection
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Image:Nuvola apps kcmsystem.png The Wikipedia syntax

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Image:Nuvola apps edu science.png Super-advanced editing

Help:Editing shortcuts
Tools
Editing toolbar
"Magic words"
Variables
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Image:Nuvola apps kmplot.png Tracking changes

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Image:Nuvola apps kcontrol.png Technical information

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
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Image:Nuvola apps konquest.png Fun stuff


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