Wikipedia:Tutorial (Namespaces)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Tutorial. This is intended for users who have already learned about Wikipedia through the Introduction and are ready to get started. After reading this series of pages you will gain the basic skills and knowledge you'll need as you become a Wikipedian. For a hands-on tutorial, you can also attend one of our Wikipedia Bootcamps.
Each page will discuss a useful feature of the wiki software, a piece of style and content guidance, information about the Wikipedia community, or important Wikipedia policies and conventions.
Keep in mind that this is a tutorial, not a definitive policy page or an extensive manual. If you want more details, throughout the tutorial there are wiki links to other Wikipedia pages. Those pages have more information on the topics here. If you want to read them as you go along, you might want to open them in a separate window.
There will be links to "sandbox" pages where you can practice what you're learning. Try things out and play around. Nobody will get upset if you mess up an experiment in these practice areas, so play around and see what you can do.
Note: This Tutorial assumes you are using the default page layout. If you are logged in and have changed your preferences, the location of links on the screen may be different.
Ready? OK, let's begin!
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In addition to the articles and their Talk pages, there are some other categories of behind-the-scenes pages that help Wikipedians communicate with each other, and serve a variety of other roles in building Wikipedia. These different areas are often referred to as namespaces — as in, "the Talk namespace".
User pages and User Talk pages
If you want to share information about yourself, the place to put it is your User page. You can gain easy access to your User page if you are logged in as a registered user. (You can always get to your User page, if you have one, by searching for it or following the link in your signature on a talk page, but if you log in you get a set of quick links to your personal pages in one of the margins of your screen.)
If other users want to communicate with you, they will leave a message on your User talk page.
Some other areas
Pages in the Wikipedia namespace (also known as the "Project namespace") provide information about Wikipedia and how to use it. The MediaWiki namespace contains interface texts such as link labels (What links here, etc.) and server messages. All the pages in both these areas also have corresponding MediaWiki talk pages.
Content written in a Template page will be displayed in articles that contain the corresponding template reference. For example, the content written in Template:Protected will appear in any article that contains the {{protected}} tag. Take a look at Wikipedia:Template messages to see what templates have already been created. You can use the corresponding tags in articles. You can also create new templates.
For more information on namespaces, see Wikipedia:Namespace.
Continue with the tutorial.
