Wiki Editing Help

and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.

Beginners

• Start with How Things Work Around Here
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User%27s_Guide
• Help Category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_help
• Excellent starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout

Community, Manners, and Disputes

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_war
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoiding_common_mistakes

Intermediate

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates
• Tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables
• Sorting Links/Lists: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category#Alphabetical_order
• Images: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files

Resources

• Commonly-used text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Boilerplate_text

Maintenance

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_structure_the_content
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_spot_vandalism
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_copy-edit

Advanced

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_reading_list
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_administrator_attention
• Timelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyTimeline
• Timelines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:EasyTimeline_syntax
• Variables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable
• DivBox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/General (search for {{Divbox}})
• Date Preferences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29
• Redirects/Auto-forward:
• documentation on customizing the interface
• Templates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template

Developing Content

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Building_Wikipedia_membership

Technology

• Templates