Help
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Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively worldwide. The following articles contain useful guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the Wikipedia community.
You can edit pages right now. See Introduction to Wikipedia.
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Site guidance
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 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 move and merge a page
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
MediaWiki
- MediaWiki User's Guide (links to another website) For those who have installed the MediaWikisoftware that runs this site, and need help using it.
Wikipedia-specific content
The Help namespace
The help namespace contains copies of help pages from Meta, with Wikipedia-specific templates (this page is an exception). The wikitext of each is intended to be an exact copy of that of the master page on Meta, while the rendered page is different owing to the templates.
Each help page contains a template with the same name with extra prefix "Ph" (Project-specific help template), e.g Template:Ph:Namespace, with Wikipedia- and subject-specific content. Typically it should at least contain links to pages in the Wikipedia namespace about the same subject. Please help creating those links, as well as links from those pages to the help page on Wikipedia and the master page on Meta.
Some existing pages in the Wikipedia namespace already contain the Wikipedia-specific content and may be simply moved to the template of that page (removing all content that duplicates that of the master page).