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Getting started
Introduction | Glossary of Wikipedia terms

Policies and guidelines
The Five Pillars | Manual of Style

Browsing Wikipedia
Search for an article | Find articles and site functions

Communication methods
Village pump | Talk pages

Editing Wikipedia
Cheatsheet | Contributing to Wikipedia | Tutorial

The Wikipedia community
Adopt-a-User | Deleting pages | Resolving disputes

Links and references
How to make links | External links | Citing sources

Resources and lists
List of stub types | Pages needing attention | Templates

Images and media
Upload images | Image copyright tags | Other media

Account settings and maintenance
Change your preferences | Change your signature

Keeping track of changes
Page history | User contributions | Vandalism

Technical information
Tools | The MediaWiki software

Where to ask questions
Help desk - questions on how to use Wikipedia.
New contributors' help page - help for beginning users.
Reference desk - general-knowledge questions.

To view all of the menus on one page, see the Site Map.

See also: Department directory and Quick directory.

Tip of the day...

The encyclopedia proper is the main namespace and contains all of Wikipedia's encyclopedia articles. All of the other namespaces have prefixes, which must be included (followed by a colon) at the beginning of links to pages in those namespaces in order for those links to work. Otherwise, the links will point to the main namespace, which has no prefix. The namespace prefixes are: Talk:, User:, User talk:, Wikipedia:, Wikipedia talk:, Image:, Image talk:, MediaWiki:, MediaWiki talk:, Template:, Template talk:, Help:, Help talk:, Category:, Category talk:, Portal:, Portal talk:, Media:, and Special:. Counting those and the main namespace makes 20.

In any given namespace there can only be one page with a particular name.

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