Wikipedia:Help

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Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by its readers. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring and participating on this site.

Table of contents

1 About Wikipedia

2 How do I do that?

3 Information and resources for contributors

4 Getting in touch

About Wikipedia

How do I do that?

See also: Wikipedia's How to.

How to explore Wikipedia
How to search for an article
How to edit a page. You can experiment with editing pages in the sandbox.
How to start a new page
How to use talk pages
How to add images to pages
How to use the Recent Changes page
How to use the Related Changes page
How to use the Go button
How to log in
How to set preferences
How to rename (move) a page
How to use redirect pages
How to revert a page to an earlier version
How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
How to link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
How to delete pages
How to edit mathematical formulas using TeX
How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
How to produce graphics for pages
How to add boilerplate text for readers
How to contact us
How to edit with an external editor
How to use tables, or [1]
How to link to sister projects

Information and resources for contributors

Policies and guidelines for contributors
Glossary of common Wikipedia terms
How to write a great article
Public domain resources
Manual of style
WikiProjects, writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines.
Wikipedia utilities, the central repository of links to pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia.

Getting in touch

Contact us
Village pump, a forum to ask questions not answered here or in the FAQs.
Reference desk, request an article or information. See also Requested articles.
Wikipedia mailing lists
Chat with other users on IRC
Bug reports and feature requests
Wikipedians
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

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