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Blocks
Technical
Problems
Article subjects
Categories
Categorization
Copyright
Forking
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About Wikipedia
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FAQ
Contributing
Tips
Tasks
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Help menu
Directories
Cheatsheet
Asking questions
Help desk
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See also
Wikipedia:Questions
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General FAQs
Main FAQ
– Main FAQ about using and contributing to Wikipedia.
Overview FAQ
– General questions about the Wikipedia project.
Readers' FAQ
– Finding, reading and using Wikipedia material.
Schools' and Teachers' FAQ
– Using Wikipedia in the classroom.
Contributing FAQ
– Why you might want to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and how you can do it.
Editing FAQ
– The ins and outs of creating and editing Wikipedia pages.
Administration FAQ
– What an administrator (or "sysop") is, sysop status, and server administration.
Blocks FAQ
– Information about
blocks
.
Technical FAQ
– Questions about Wikipedia software and hardware and their limitations.
Problems FAQ
– Questions relating to past or present difficulties and criticism.
Article subjects' FAQ
– Questions relating to an article about you, someone you represent, or your organization or business
Copyright FAQ
– Questions pertaining to copyright issues.
Template FAQ
– Questions about
templates
.
Miscellaneous FAQ
– Everything else.
Specific FAQs
Forking FAQ
– How to download Wikipedia content and/or software and/or create derivative works of Wikipedia.
Categorization FAQ
– Editor's guide to the
Category
feature.
Categories FAQ
– Readers' guide to categories.
Main Page FAQ
– How it works and other common answers.
ClueBot NG FAQ
– Specific to
ClueBot NG
Similar pages
Citing Wikipedia
– Detailed information about how to cite Wikipedia when you use it as a reference.
Who writes Wikipedia
– An overview of the process and people behind Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:What is an article?
– What constitutes an article.
Glossary
– Definitions of Wikipedia jargon and acronyms.
See also
Help contents
– A page to guide you to the right place.
Help directory
– A descriptive directory of informative, instructional and supportive pages.
The Wikipedia Help Desk
– For questions about How to use Wikipedia.
Troubleshooting
– Help with various technical difficulties with accessing or editing Wikipedia pages.
The Wikipedia Manual of Style
– Stylistic guidebook to help keep Wikipedia's appearance self-consistent.
Replies to common objections
– Responses to common criticisms leveled at Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Press Kit
– Resources for media inquiries, and corrections to common misconceptions about Wikipedia.
For other useful directories and indexes, see
Wikipedia:Directory
.
v
t
e
Basic information on Wikipedia
Help
directory
menu
Teahouse
(interactive help for new editors)
About Wikipedia
Readers' index to Wikipedia
Statistics
Administration
FAQs
Purpose
Who writes Wikipedia?
Organization
Censorship
In brief
General disclaimer
Readers' FAQ
Student help
Navigation
Searching
Viewing media
Help
Mobile access
Parental advice
Other languages
Researching with Wikipedia
Citing Wikipedia
Copyright
Introductions
to contributing
Main introduction
List of tutorials and introductions
The answer
Dos and don'ts
Learning the ropes
Common mistakes
Newcomer primer
Simplified ruleset
The "Missing Manual"
Your first article
Wizard
Young Wikipedians
The Wikipedia Adventure
Accounts
Why create an account?
Logging in
Email confirmation
Editing
Toolbar
Conflict
VisualEditor
User guide
Pillars, policies
and guidelines
Five pillars
Manual of Style
Simplified
Etiquette
Expectations
Oversight
Principles
Ignore all rules
The rules are principles
Core content policies
Policies and guidelines
Vandalism
Appealing blocks
What Wikipedia is not
Getting help
Help menu
Help desk
Reference Desk
Category
Requests for help
Disputes resolution requests
IRC live chat
Tutorial
Contact us
Wikipedia community
Departments
Meetups
WikiProjects
Overview
FAQ
Village pump
policy
technical
proposals
idea lab
wikimedia
misc
Newsletters
:
Signpost
Library Newsletter
GLAM Newsletter
Informational:
Community portal
Dashboard
Noticeboards
Maintenance
Task Center
Essays
Sourcing
and
referencing
Research
Research desk
Wikipedia Library
Request Resources
Free resources
Request access to major databases
WikiProject Resource Exchange
Shared resources
Guidelines
Finding sources
Combining sources
Referencing
Citations
Citation Style 1
Citation templates
Footnotes
Page numbers
Cite errors
How-to guides
Category
Tools
Infoboxes
Writing articles
Development
Better writing
Files
Images
Media files
Uploading
Deletion
User contribution pages
Editing pages
Diffs
Namespaces
Deletion
Merging
Renaming
Requests
Redirecting
Reverting
Vandalism cleanup
Talk pages
Archiving
Wiki markup
Wiki markup
Cheatsheet
Columns
HTML
Lists
Magic words
For beginners
Sections
Sounds
Special Characters
Tables
Templates
Documentation
Index
Substitution
Transclusion
Image and video markup
Tutorial
Linking
Directories
and glossaries
Category
Abbreviations
Contents
Edit summaries
Essays
Glossary
Index
Shortcuts
Tips
v
t
e
Wikipedia directories and indexes
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pages
Protocols
Policies
Guidelines
Manual of Style
Assistance
Help directory
Menu
FAQs
Interactive help
Reader's index
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The community
Portal
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Editor's index
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MediaWiki
Wikitext
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Locutions
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proper
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Good articles
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Featured topics
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Nature
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